Elevated Intraesophageal Pressure in Patients with Achalasia: A Common and Important Manometric Finding

Digestive Diseases and Sciences

Volumn 48, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 2242-2246

  Kamberoglou, Dimitrios K ^a,b   Zambeli, Evanthia P ^a   Triantafyllopoulos, Panagiotis A ^a   Margetis, Nikolaos G ^a   Gavalakis, Nikolaos K ^a   Tzias, Vassilios D ^a  

^a Department of Rheumatology   (Greece)

^b NONE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Achalasia; Esophageal baseline; Esophageal motility; Intraesophageal pressure; Lower esophageal sphincter pressure; Manometry

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE DURATION; ESOPHAGUS ACHALASIA; ESOPHAGUS MOTILITY; ESOPHAGUS PRESSURE; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; GASTROINTESTINAL RADIOGRAPHY; HUMAN; LOWER ESOPHAGUS SPHINCTER PRESSURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MANOMETRY; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STOMACH PRESSURE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ESOPHAGEAL ACHALASIA; ESOPHAGOGASTRIC JUNCTION; ESOPHAGOSCOPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MANOMETRY; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 0345802748     PISSN: 01632116     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:DDAS.0000007858.31353.00     Document Type: Article

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