Minimally invasive surgery for achalasia: An 8-year experience with 168 patients

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 230, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 587-594

  Patti, Marco G ^a   Pellegrini, Carlos A ^b   Horgan, Santiago ^b   Arcerito, Massimo ^a   Omelanczuk, Pablo ^b   Tamburini, Andrea ^a   Diener, Urs ^a   Eubanks, Thomas R ^b   Way, Lawrence W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CONFERENCE PAPER; DYSPHAGIA; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; ESOPHAGUS ACHALASIA; ESOPHAGUS DILATATION; ESOPHAGUS MYOTOMY; ESOPHAGUS RESECTION; FEMALE; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; STOMACH FUNDOPLICATION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THORACOSCOPY; TREATMENT FAILURE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; ESOPHAGEAL ACHALASIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MINIMALLY INVASIVE; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0033497491     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000658-199910000-00014     Document Type: Conference Paper

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