Diagnostic value of esophageal studies in patients with angina-like chest pain and normal coronary angiograms

Annals of Internal Medicine

Volumn 124, Issue 11, 1996, Pages 959-969

  Frøbert, Ole ^b   Funch Jensen, Peter ^b   Bagger, Jens Peder ^a  

^a ST GEORGE S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACID; EDROPHONIUM CHLORIDE;

ADULT; AGED; ANGINA PECTORIS; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ESOPHAGUS MANOMETRY; ESOPHAGUS MOTILITY; ESOPHAGUS PH; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HOLTER MONITORING; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROVOCATION TEST; ST SEGMENT DEPRESSION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHEST PAIN; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EDROPHONIUM; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ESOPHAGEAL MOTILITY DISORDERS; ESOPHAGUS; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYDROCHLORIC ACID; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; LACTATES; MALE; MANOMETRY; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIUM; PARASYMPATHOMIMETICS; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 0030317660     PISSN: 00034819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7326/0003-4819-124-11-199606010-00003     Document Type: Article

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