Laparoscopic Heller myotomy for achalasia

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Surgery

Volumn 70, Issue 8, 2000, Pages 582-586

  Hunt, D R ^a   Wills, V L ^a  

^a St George Private Medical Center   (Australia)

Author keywords

Achalasia; Laparoscopy; Oesophageal myotomy; Oesophageal perforation

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIOESOPHAGOMYOTOMY; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVALESCENCE; DYSPHAGIA; ESOPHAGUS ACHALASIA; ESOPHAGUS PERFORATION; FEMALE; HEARTBURN; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OPERATION DURATION; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; REFLUX ESOPHAGITIS; STOMACH FUNDOPLICATION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THORAX PAIN; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; ESOPHAGEAL ACHALASIA; ESOPHAGOSCOPY; FEMALE; FUNDOPLICATION; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE, SMOOTH; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUESTIONNAIRES; REOPERATION; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0033844648     PISSN: 00048682     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1440-1622.2000.01903.x     Document Type: Article

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