Floppy Dor fundoplication after esophagocardiomyotomy for achalasia

Surgery

Volumn 132, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 716-723

  Donahue, Philip E ^a   Horgan, Santiago ^a   Liu, Katherine J M ^a   Madura, James A ^a,b  

^a RUSH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Jr Hospital of Cook County   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTACID AGENT; PROTON PUMP INHIBITOR;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTIREFLUX OPERATION; ARTICLE; BARRETT ESOPHAGUS; CARDIOESOPHAGOMYOTOMY; CHILD; DYSPHAGIA; ENDOSCOPY; ESOPHAGUS ACHALASIA; ESOPHAGUS DILATATION; ESOPHAGUS MANOMETRY; EVALUATION; FIBROSIS; FLOPPY DOR FUNDOPLICATION; FOLLOW UP; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; HEARTBURN; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SAFETY; SCORING SYSTEM; STOMACH DISEASE; STOMACH WALL; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SWALLOWING; SYMPTOM; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0036776285     PISSN: 00396060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1067/msy.2002.128557     Document Type: Article

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