Treatment of achalasia with the witzel dilator: A prospective randomized study of two methods

Endoscopy

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 379-382

  Alonso Aguirre, P ^a   Aba Garrote, C ^a   Estevez Prieto E ^a   Gonzalez Conde B ^a   Vazquez Iglesias J L ^a  

^a HOSPITAL JUAN CANALEJO   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; BARIUM MEAL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOSCOPIC THERAPY; ESOPHAGUS ACHALASIA; ESOPHAGUS DILATATION; ESOPHAGUS MANOMETRY; ESOPHAGUS PERFORATION; ESOPHAGUS SURGERY; EVALUATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LOWER ESOPHAGUS SPHINCTER PRESSURE; MALE; OPERATION DURATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIODIAGNOSIS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SURGICAL EQUIPMENT; TIME; WITZEL DILATOR;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BALLOON DILATATION; ESOPHAGEAL ACHALASIA; ESOPHAGOSCOPY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MANOMETRY; MIDDLE AGED; PROBABILITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REFERENCE VALUES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0038367951     PISSN: 0013726X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2003-38777     Document Type: Article

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