Dysphagia and advancing age: Are manometric abnormalities more common in older patients?

Digestive Diseases and Sciences

Volumn 48, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 1709-1712

  Robson, Kristen M ^a   Glick, Michael E ^a  

^a LAHEY HOSPITAL AND MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Deglutition disorders; Esophageal motility disorders; Manometry

Indexed keywords

AGE; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DYSPHAGIA; ESOPHAGUS ACHALASIA; ESOPHAGUS FUNCTION DISORDER; ESOPHAGUS MANOMETRY; ESOPHAGUS MOTILITY; ESOPHAGUS SPASM; FEMALE; HUMAN; LOWER ESOPHAGUS SPHINCTER PRESSURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PERISTALSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYMPTOM; SYSTEMIC SCLEROSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; DEGLUTITION DISORDERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MANOMETRY; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 0141762633     PISSN: 01632116     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1025430625252     Document Type: Article

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