Pressure details from the weight-challenged gastroesophageal junction: More than the usual suspects

Gastroenterology

Volumn 130, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 988-989

  Tutuian, Radu ^a   Castell, Donald O ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOMETRY; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EDITORIAL; ESOPHAGUS PRESSURE; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; HEARTBURN; HUMAN; IMAGING SYSTEM; LOWER ESOPHAGUS SPHINCTER; MANOMETRY; OBESITY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33644861920     PISSN: 00165085     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.gastro.2006.01.069     Document Type: Editorial

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