Esophageal impedance recording: Clinical utility and limitations

Current Gastroenterology Reports

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 182-189

  Park, Woosuk ^a   Vaezi, Michael F ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTACID AGENT; BARIUM; OMEPRAZOLE; PROTON PUMP INHIBITOR;

APNEA; ASPIRATION PNEUMONIA; ASTHMA; BARIUM MEAL; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COUGHING; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DYSPHAGIA; ELECTRODIAGNOSIS; ESOPHAGUS ACHALASIA; ESOPHAGUS DISEASE; ESOPHAGUS FUNCTION; ESOPHAGUS FUNCTION DISORDER; ESOPHAGUS MANOMETRY; ESOPHAGUS MOTILITY; ESOPHAGUS PH; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; HEARTBURN; HOARSENESS; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LARYNGITIS; MULTICHANNEL INTRALUMINAL IMPEDANCE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; REFERENCE VALUE; REVIEW; THORAX PAIN;

EID: 21444440429     PISSN: 15228037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11894-005-0032-y     Document Type: Review

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