Is esophagoscopy alone sufficient for patients with reflux symptoms?

Gastrointestinal Endoscopy

Volumn 59, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 349-354

  Wildi, Stephan M ^a,b   Glenn, Tammy F ^a,b   Woolson, Robert F ^a,b   Wang, Wei ^a,b   Hawes, Robert H ^a,b   Wallace, Michael B ^a,b  

^a Medical University of South Carolina ^*

^b MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HISTAMINE H2 RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; PROTON PUMP INHIBITOR;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; AGED; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BARRETT ESOPHAGUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DUODENITIS; DUODENUM DISEASE; DUODENUM POLYP; DUODENUM ULCER; DYSPHAGIA; EROSIVE GASTRITIS; ESOPHAGOSCOPY; ESOPHAGUS BIOPSY; FEMALE; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; HEARTBURN; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NAUSEA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; REFLUX ESOPHAGITIS; SCREENING TEST; STOMACH DISEASE; STOMACH ULCER; SYMPTOM;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COHORT STUDIES; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; ESOPHAGOSCOPY; FEMALE; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; GASTROINTESTINAL NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREVALENCE; PROBABILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SEX DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 1542724508     PISSN: 00165107     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0016-5107(03)02714-7     Document Type: Article

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