Dual-channel ambulatory esophageal pH monitoring: A useful diagnostic tool?

Digestive Diseases and Sciences

Volumn 42, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 2222-2226

  Wo, John M ^b   Hunter, John G ^b   Waring, J Patrick ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Ambulatory pH monitoring; Atypical gastroesophageal reflux disease; Gastroesophageal reflux disease; Proximal gastroesophageal reflux

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AMBULATORY MONITORING; ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DISEASE SEVERITY; ESOPHAGUS PH; FEMALE; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; HEARTBURN; HOARSENESS; HUMAN; LOWER ESOPHAGUS SPHINCTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFLUX ESOPHAGITIS; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; THORAX PAIN;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AMBULATORY CARE; ESOPHAGUS; FEMALE; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; HUMANS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 0031437664     PISSN: 01632116     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1018802330957     Document Type: Article

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