Cricopharyngeal achalasia is a common cause of dysphagia in patients with mtDNA deletions

Neurology

Volumn 56, Issue 10, 2001, Pages 1409-1412

  Kornblum, C ^b   Broicher, R ^b   Walther, E ^b   Seibel, P ^b   Reichmann, H ^b   Klockgether, T ^b   Herberhold, C ^b   Schröder, Rolf ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b NONE

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CRICOPHARYNGEUS MUSCLE; DYSPHAGIA; ESOPHAGUS ACHALASIA; EXTERNAL OPHTHALMOPLEGIA; FEMALE; FLUOROSCOPY; GENE DELETION; HUMAN; KEARNS SAYRE SYNDROME; MALE; MANOMETRY; MYOTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT INDICATION;

EID: 0035933145     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/WNL.56.10.1409     Document Type: Article

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