Very late results of esophagomyotomy for patients with achalasia: Clinical, endoscopic, histologic, manometric, and acid reflux studies in 67 patients for a mean follow-up of 190 months

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 243, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 196-203

  Csendes, Attila ^a   Braghetto, Italo ^a   Burdiles, Patricia ^a   Korn, Owen ^a   Csendes, Paula ^a   Henriquez, Ana ^a  

^a HOSPITAL CLÍNICO UNIVERSIDAD DE CHILE   (Chile)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANTIREFLUX OPERATION; ARTICLE; BARRETT ESOPHAGUS; CLINICAL FEATURE; DETERIORATION; ESOPHAGOSCOPY; ESOPHAGUS ACHALASIA; ESOPHAGUS CARCINOMA; ESOPHAGUS MUCOSA; ESOPHAGUS MYOTOMY; ESOPHAGUS PH; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTESTINE METAPLASIA; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LOWER ESOPHAGUS SPHINCTER PRESSURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MANOMETRY; MYOTOMY; PERISTALSIS; PH MEASUREMENT; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUESTIONNAIRE; REFLUX ESOPHAGITIS; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BARRETT ESOPHAGUS; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; ESOPHAGEAL ACHALASIA; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; ESOPHAGOSCOPY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GASTRIC ACIDITY DETERMINATION; HUMANS; MALE; MANOMETRY; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUESTIONNAIRES; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 31844434324     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.sla.0000197469.12632.e0     Document Type: Article

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