Ineffective esophageal motility: The most common motility abnormality in patients with GERD-associated respiratory symptoms

American Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 94, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1464-1467

  Fouad, Yasser M ^a   Katz, Philip O ^a   Hatlebakk, Jan G ^a   Castell, Donald O ^a  

^a GRADUATE HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; COUGHING; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ESOPHAGUS FUNCTION DISORDER; ESOPHAGUS MANOMETRY; ESOPHAGUS MOTILITY; ESOPHAGUS PH; FEMALE; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; HEARTBURN; HUMAN; LARYNGITIS; LOWER ESOPHAGUS SPHINCTER PRESSURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

EID: 0033020367     PISSN: 00029270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1572-0241.1999.1127_e.x     Document Type: Article

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