Therapeutic effects of a laparoscopic heller myotomy and dor fundoplication on the chest pain associated with achalasia

Surgery Today

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 235-240

  Omura, Nobuo ^a   Kashiwagi, Hideyuki ^a   Tsuboi, Kazuto ^a   Ishibashi, Yoshio ^a   Kawasaki, Naruo ^a   Yano, Fumiaki ^a   Suzuki, Yutaka ^a   Yanaga, Katsuhiko ^a  

^a JIKEI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Achalasia; Chest pain; Dor fundoplication; Heller myotomy; Laparoscopic surgery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIOESOPHAGOMYOTOMY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DOR FUNDOPLICATION; ESOPHAGUS ACHALASIA; ESOPHAGUS DILATATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THORAX PAIN; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHEST PAIN; DILATATION; ESOPHAGEAL ACHALASIA; ESOPHAGUS; FEMALE; FUNDOPLICATION; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33344464323     PISSN: 09411291     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00595-005-3122-4     Document Type: Article

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