The effect of medical therapy and antireflux surgery on dysphagia in patients with gastroesophageal reflux disease without esophageal stricture

American Journal of Surgery

Volumn 177, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 189-192

  Wetscher, Gerold J ^a   Glaser, Karl ^a   Gadenstaetter, Michael ^a   Profanter, Christoph ^a   Hinder, Ronald A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^b MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CISAPRIDE; OMEPRAZOLE; PANTOPRAZOLE;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIREFLUX OPERATION; ARTICLE; DYSPHAGIA; ESOPHAGITIS; ESOPHAGUS INJURY; ESOPHAGUS MOTILITY; ESOPHAGUS MUCOSA; ESOPHAGUS OBSTRUCTION; ESOPHAGUS STRICTURE; FEMALE; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; HEARTBURN; HIATUS HERNIA; HUMAN; LOWER ESOPHAGUS SPHINCTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

2-PYRIDINYLMETHYLSULFINYLBENZIMIDAZOLES; ADULT; AGED; ANTI-ULCER AGENTS; BENZIMIDAZOLES; CISAPRIDE; DEGLUTITION DISORDERS; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; ENZYME INHIBITORS; ESOPHAGEAL STENOSIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FUNDOPLICATION; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; H(+)-K(+)-EXCHANGING ATPASE; HEARTBURN; HUMANS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; LAPAROSCOPY; MALE; MANOMETRY; MIDDLE AGED; OMEPRAZOLE; PRESSURE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUESTIONNAIRES; SULFOXIDES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0032941572     PISSN: 00029610     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9610(99)00011-2     Document Type: Article

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