Normal Oesophageal Manometric Values in Healthy Adult Volunteers

Journal of the Pakistan Medical Association

Volumn 53, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 401-405

  Ahmed, W U ^a   Vohra, E A ^a  

^a ZIAUDDIN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESOPHAGUS; ESOPHAGUS FUNCTION DISORDER; ESOPHAGUS MANOMETRY; ESOPHAGUS MOTILITY; ESOPHAGUS PRESSURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LOWER ESOPHAGUS SPHINCTER; MALE; MANOMETRY; NORMAL HUMAN; PAKISTAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REFERENCE VALUE; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ESOPHAGEAL MOTILITY DISORDERS; ESOPHAGUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MANOMETRY; MIDDLE AGED; REFERENCE VALUES;

EID: 0142089743     PISSN: 00309982     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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