Achalasia: Results of myotomy and antireflux operation after failed dilatations

Archives of Surgery

Volumn 132, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 143-147

  Cosentini, Enrico ^a   Berlakovich, Gabriela ^a   Zacherl, Johannes ^a   Stacher Janotta, Giselheid ^a   Merio, René ^a   Wenzl, Etienne ^a   Bergmann, Helmar ^a,b   Stacher, Georg ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b LUDWIG BOLTZMANN INSTITUTE FOR LUNG VASCULAR RESEARCH   (Austria)

^c Psychophysiologisches Laboratorium   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTIREFLUX OPERATION; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DYSPHAGIA; ESOPHAGUS DILATATION; ESOPHAGUS MANOMETRY; FEMALE; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; HUMAN; LOWER ESOPHAGUS SPHINCTER; MALE; MYOTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCINTIGRAPHY; STOMACH FUNDOPLICATION; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0031039251     PISSN: 00040010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archsurg.1997.01430260041007     Document Type: Article

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