Laparoscopic nissen fundoplication offers high patient satisfaction with relief of extraesophageal symptoms of gastroesophageal reflux disease

American Surgeon

Volumn 72, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 207-212

  Rakita, Steven ^a,b   Villadolid, Desiree ^a   Thomas, Ashley ^a   Bloomston, Mark ^a   Albrink, Michael ^a   Goldin, Steven ^a   Rosemurgy, Alexander ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; BLOATING; CONTROLLED STUDY; COUGHING; DIET; DISEASE EXACERBATION; FEMALE; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; HEART ARREST; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; ODYNOPHAGIA; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PNEUMONIA; PNEUMOTHORAX; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; RATING SCALE; SCORING SYSTEM; SEPSIS; SLEEP; SMALL INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STOMACH FUNDOPLICATION; SYMPTOM; THERAPY EFFECT; THORAX PAIN; WILCOXON SIGNED RANKS TEST; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FOLLOW UP; HOSPITALIZATION; LAPAROSCOPY; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ASTHMA; CHEST PAIN; COUGH; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FUNDOPLICATION; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33645508513     PISSN: 00031348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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