Vigorous achalasia in Chagas' disease

Diseases of the Esophagus

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 305-308

  Dantas, Roberto O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHAGAS DISEASE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DYSPHAGIA; ESOPHAGOSCOPY; ESOPHAGUS ACHALASIA; ESOPHAGUS MANOMETRY; ESOPHAGUS MOTILITY; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL RADIOGRAPHY; GASTROINTESTINAL TRANSIT; HUMAN; LOWER ESOPHAGUS SPHINCTER PRESSURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PERFUSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UPPER ESOPHAGUS SPHINCTER;

ADULT; AGED; CHAGAS DISEASE; ESOPHAGEAL ACHALASIA; ESOPHAGUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MANOMETRY; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 0036969545     PISSN: 11208694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1442-2050.2002.00267.x     Document Type: Article

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