Esophageal smooth muscle dysfunction in oculopharyngeal muscular dystrophy

Digestive Diseases and Sciences

Volumn 41, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 1350-1354

  Tiomny, E ^b   Khilkevic, O ^b   Korczyn, A D ^a   Kimmel, R ^b   Hallak, A ^b   Baron, J ^b   Blumen, S ^b   Asherov, A ^b   Gilat, T ^b  

^a TEL AVIV SOURASKY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b NONE

Author keywords

dysphagia; esophagus; manometry; motility; oculopharyngeal muscular dystrophy; scintigraphy; smooth muscle

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DYSPHAGIA; ESOPHAGUS DISEASE; ESOPHAGUS MOTILITY; ESOPHAGUS PRESSURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; AGE OF ONSET; AGED; BLEPHAROPTOSIS; DEGLUTITION DISORDERS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ESOPHAGOGASTRIC JUNCTION; ESOPHAGUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; JEWS; MALE; MANOMETRY; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCULAR DYSTROPHIES; OCULOMOTOR MUSCLES; PERISTALSIS; PHARYNGEAL MUSCLES; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; UZBEKISTAN; VOICE DISORDERS;

EID: 0030057992     PISSN: 01632116     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02088559     Document Type: Article

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