Gastro-esophageal reflux disease confined to the sphincter

Diseases of the Esophagus

Volumn 14, Issue 3-4, 2001, Pages 235-238

  Theisen, J ^a   Oberg S ^b   Peters, J H ^c   Gastal, O ^c   Bremner, C G ^c   Mason, R ^c   DeMeester, T R ^c  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BILIRUBIN;

ACIDITY; ADULT; AGED; AMBULATORY MONITORING; ARTICLE; BARRETT ESOPHAGUS; BILIRUBIN BLOOD LEVEL; CARDITIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE MARKER; DISEASE SEVERITY; ESOPHAGUS MANOMETRY; ESOPHAGUS PH; EVALUATION; EXPOSURE; FEMALE; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; HEART MUSCLE BIOPSY; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LOWER ESOPHAGUS SPHINCTER; LOWER ESOPHAGUS SPHINCTER PRESSURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY; PH MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANK SUM TEST; SYMPTOM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOPSY, NEEDLE; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COHORT STUDIES; ESOPHAGOGASTRIC JUNCTION; ESOPHAGOSCOPY; FEMALE; GASTRIC MUCOSA; GASTRITIS; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; GASTROSCOPY; HUMANS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; MALE; MANOMETRY; MIDDLE AGED; PROBABILITY; PROGNOSIS; REFERENCE VALUES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 0035716155     PISSN: 11208694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1442-2050.2001.00191.x     Document Type: Article

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