Measuring EGJ opening patterns using high resolution intraluminal impedance

Neurogastroenterology and Motility

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 200-206

  Pandolfino, John E ^a   Shi, G ^a   Zhang, Q ^a   Ghosh, S ^a   Brasseur, J G ^a   Kahrilas, P J ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Esophagogastric Junction; Intraluminal impedance; Transient LES relaxations

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; DATA ANALYSIS; ESOPHAGUS MANOMETRY; ESOPHAGUS PH; FEMALE; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMPEDANCE; INTRALUMINAL IMPEDANCE; LOWER ESOPHAGUS SPHINCTER PRESSURE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOOTH MUSCLE RELAXATION; SWALLOWING; VOLUNTEER;

ADULT; CATHETERIZATION; DEGLUTITION; ESOPHAGEAL SPHINCTER, LOWER; ESOPHAGOGASTRIC JUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MANOMETRY; PLETHYSMOGRAPHY, IMPEDANCE;

EID: 16444386875     PISSN: 13501925     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2982.2004.00589.x     Document Type: Article

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