The gastro-oesophageal pressure inversion point revisited

Scandinavian Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 38, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 812-818

  Bredenoord, A J ^b   Weusten, B L A M ^b   Roelofs, J M M ^b   Smout, A J P M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b NONE

Author keywords

High resolution manometry; Motility; Oesophageal manometry; Oesophagogastric junction; Pressure inversion point

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PRESSURE; ADULT; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESOPHAGUS; ESOPHAGUS PRESSURE; FEMALE; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; HIATUS HERNIA; HUMAN; LOWER ESOPHAGUS SPHINCTER; LOWER ESOPHAGUS SPHINCTER PRESSURE; MALE; MANOMETRY; POSITIVE END EXPIRATORY PRESSURE; PRESSURE INVERSION POINT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSOR; STOMACH; THORAX; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ADULT; AIRWAY RESISTANCE; DIAPHRAGM; ESOPHAGOGASTRIC JUNCTION; FEMALE; HERNIA, HIATAL; HUMANS; MALE; MANOMETRY; MIDDLE AGED; PRESSURE; REFERENCE VALUES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESPIRATORY FUNCTION TESTS;

EID: 0041927899     PISSN: 00365521     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00365520310003958     Document Type: Article

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