Dual site ambulatory pH monitoring: A probe across the lower esophageal sphincter does not induce gastroesophageal reflux

American Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 91, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 1162-1166

  Decktor, Dennis L ^a   Krawet, Steven H ^b   Rodriguez, Sheila L ^b   Robinson, Malcolm ^b   Castell, Donald O ^b  

^a Johnson and Johnson   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; ELECTRODE; ESOPHAGITIS; ESOPHAGUS MANOMETRY; ESOPHAGUS PH; FEMALE; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; HUMAN; LOWER ESOPHAGUS SPHINCTER; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; STOMACH PH;

ADULT; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; ESOPHAGOGASTRIC JUNCTION; FEMALE; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; HUMANS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; MALE; MANOMETRY; MONITORING, AMBULATORY; PERISTALSIS; POSTURE; REFERENCE VALUES; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0029993031     PISSN: 00029270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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