Laryngopharyngeal reflux identified using a new catheter design: Defining normal values and excluding artifacts

Laryngoscope

Volumn 113, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 349-355

  Maldonado, Anastasia ^a   Diederich, Linda ^b   Castell, Donald O ^b   Gideon, R M ^a   Katz, Philip O ^a  

^a GRADUATE HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

PH monitoring; Pharynx; Reflux

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; CATHETER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DEVICE; ELECTRODE; FEMALE; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LARYNGOPHARYNGEAL REFLUX; LARYNX DISORDER; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PH MEASUREMENT; PHARYNX DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; AGED; ARTIFACTS; CATHETERIZATION; EATING; ELECTRODES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; ESOPHAGUS; FEMALE; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; HUMANS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; LARYNGEAL DISEASES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING, AMBULATORY; PHARYNGEAL DISEASES; PHARYNX;

EID: 0037317205     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005537-200302000-00027     Document Type: Article

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