Noncardiac chest pain of esophageal origin in patients with and without coronary artery disease

Hepato-Gastroenterology

Volumn 52, Issue 63, 2005, Pages 792-795

  Battaglia, Edda ^a   Bassotti, Gabrio ^c,d   Buonafede, Giuseppina ^a   Serra, Anna Maria ^a   Dughera, Luca ^a   Orzan, Fulvio ^b   Casoni, Roberta ^b   Chistolini, Fabio ^c   Morelli, Antonio ^c   Emanuelli, Giorgio ^a  

^a Dipartimento di Fisiopatologia Clinica   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

^d NONE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Chest pain; Coronary artery disease; Esophageal manometry; pH metry

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; ESOPHAGITIS; ESOPHAGOSCOPY; ESOPHAGUS DISEASE; ESOPHAGUS FUNCTION; ESOPHAGUS MANOMETRY; ESOPHAGUS MOTILITY; ESOPHAGUS PH; FEMALE; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; PH MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THORAX PAIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CAUSALITY; CHEST PAIN; COMORBIDITY; CORONARY ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; CORONARY CARE UNITS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ESOPHAGEAL MOTILITY DISORDERS; ESOPHAGITIS; ESOPHAGOSCOPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 20644433109     PISSN: 01726390     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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