An Antireflux Procedure Should Not Routinely Be Added to a Heller Myotomy

Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 13-16

  Richards, William O ^a,b   Sharp, Kenneth W ^a   Holzman, Michael D ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DYSPHAGIA; ESOPHAGUS ACHALASIA; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PATIENT SELECTION; PERISTALSIS; PH; PHILOSOPHY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; STOMACH FUNDOPLICATION; STOMACH PH; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

DEGLUTITION DISORDERS; ESOPHAGEAL ACHALASIA; FUNDOPLICATION; GASTRIC ACIDITY DETERMINATION; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; HUMANS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; PALLIATIVE CARE; PATIENT SELECTION; PERISTALSIS; PHILOSOPHY, MEDICAL; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0035229325     PISSN: 1091255X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1091-255X(01)80007-X     Document Type: Article

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