Improved outcome after extended gastric myotomy for achalasia

Archives of Surgery

Volumn 138, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 490-497

  Oelschlager, Brant K ^a   Chang, Lily ^b   Pellegrini, Carlos A ^b   Deschamps, Claude ^b   Millikan, Keith W ^b   Donahue, Philip E ^b   Organ Jr , Claude H ^b   Patti, Marco G ^b   Vanderpool, David ^b   Joehl, Raymond J ^b   Grosfeld, Jay L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARDIOESOPHAGOMYOTOMY; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DYSPHAGIA; ESOPHAGUS ACHALASIA; ESOPHAGUS FUNCTION; ESOPHAGUS MANOMETRY; ESOPHAGUS PH; HEARTBURN; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LOWER ESOPHAGUS SPHINCTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORBIDITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; REFLUX ESOPHAGITIS; REOPERATION; STOMACH FUNDOPLICATION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; THORAX PAIN; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

DEGLUTITION DISORDERS; DILATATION; ESOPHAGEAL ACHALASIA; FUNDOPLICATION; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; MANOMETRY; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0037694922     PISSN: 00040010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archsurg.138.5.490     Document Type: Conference Paper

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