Primary cricopharyngeal dysfunction: Treatment with balloon catheter dilatation

Gastrointestinal Endoscopy

Volumn 54, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 767-771

  Solt, Jeno ^a,b   Bajor, Judit ^a   Moizs, Mariann ^a   Grexa, Erzsébet ^a   Horváth, Péter Ö ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PÉCS   (Hungary)

^b Baranya County Hospital   (Hungary)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BALLOON DILATATION; CRICOID; DYSPHAGIA; ESOPHAGUS STENOSIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LOWER ESOPHAGUS SPHINCTER; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; BALLOON DILATATION; CRICOID CARTILAGE; DEGLUTITION DISORDERS; ESOPHAGEAL STENOSIS; ESOPHAGOGASTRIC JUNCTION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0035654195     PISSN: 00165107     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1067/mge.2001.118442     Document Type: Article

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