Muscle shortening along the normal esophagus during swallowing

Digestive Diseases and Sciences

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 105-109

  Dai, Qing ^a   Korimilli, Annapurna ^a   Thangada, Vinod K ^a   Chung, Chan Y ^a   Parkman, Henry ^a   Brasseur, James ^b   Miller, Larry S ^a  

^a TEMPLE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Circular smooth muscle; Esophagus; Longitudinal smooth muscle; Peristatic contraction; Physiology of swallowing; Swallowing; Ultrasound high resolution ultrasound and manometry

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESOPHAGUS FUNCTION; ESOPHAGUS MANOMETRY; ESOPHAGUS MOTILITY; ESOPHAGUS MUSCLE; ESOPHAGUS PRESSURE; FEMALE; HIGH RESOLUTION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LOWER ESOPHAGUS SPHINCTER; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTILITY; MUSCLE FUNCTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SWALLOWING;

ADULT; DEGLUTITION; ENDOSONOGRAPHY; ESOPHAGUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MANOMETRY; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SMOOTH; PERISTALSIS; PRESSURE; REFERENCE VALUES;

EID: 30844433121     PISSN: 01632116     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10620-006-3092-4     Document Type: Article

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