Clearance mechanisms of the aperistaltic oesophagus: The "pump gun" hypothesis [8]

Gut

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 584-585

  Tutuian, R ^a   Pohl, D ^a   Castell, D O ^b   Fried, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; ESOPHAGUS ACHALASIA; ESOPHAGUS MANOMETRY; ESOPHAGUS MOTILITY; ESOPHAGUS PRESSURE; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; HUMAN; LETTER; LOWER ESOPHAGUS SPHINCTER; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

DEGLUTITION DISORDERS; ESOPHAGEAL ACHALASIA; HUMANS; MALE; MANOMETRY; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE, SMOOTH; PERISTALSIS; PRESSURE;

EID: 33645127252     PISSN: 00175749     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/gut.2005.085423     Document Type: Letter

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