Expectations of patients with gastroesophageal reflux disease for the outcome of laparoscopic antireflux surgery

Surgical Laparoscopy, Endoscopy and Percutaneous Techniques

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 389-392

  Kamolz, Thomas ^a   Pointner, Rudolph ^a  

^a General Public Hospital Zell am See   (Austria)

Author keywords

Antireflux surgery; Gastroesophageal reflux disease; GERD; Laparoscopic fundoplication

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANTIREFLUX OPERATION; ARTICLE; BARRETT ESOPHAGUS; CANCER RISK; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; EATING HABIT; ESOPHAGITIS; EXPECTATION; FEMALE; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; HEARTBURN; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PAIN; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PH MEASUREMENT; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; REFLUX ESOPHAGITIS; SLEEP PATTERN; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; ATTITUDE; FEMALE; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUALITY OF LIFE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0036908783     PISSN: 10517200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00129689-200212000-00001     Document Type: Article

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