Unexplained chest Pain: The hypersensitive, hyperreactive, and poorly compliant esophagus

Annals of Internal Medicine

Volumn 124, Issue 11, 1996, Pages 950-958

  Rao, Satish S C ^a   Gregersen, Hans ^b   Hayek, Bernard ^a   Summers, Robert W ^a   Christensen, James ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA HOSPITALS AND CLINICS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BALLOON DILATATION; BIOMECHANICS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPLIANCE (PHYSICAL); CONTROLLED STUDY; ESOPHAGUS DISEASE; ESOPHAGUS MOTILITY; ESOPHAGUS PRESSURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMPEDANCE; MALE; NEUROMUSCULAR DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRESS STRAIN RELATIONSHIP; THORAX PAIN; YOUNG MODULUS;

ADULT; AGED; BALLOON DILATATION; BIOMECHANICS; CHEST PAIN; COMPLIANCE; ESOPHAGEAL DISEASES; ESOPHAGUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; MALE; MANOMETRY; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSORY THRESHOLDS;

EID: 0030317302     PISSN: 00034819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7326/0003-4819-124-11-199606010-00002     Document Type: Article

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