Relationship between bolus transit and LES-relaxation studied with concurrent impedance and manometry

Hepato-Gastroenterology

Volumn 53, Issue 68, 2006, Pages 218-223

  Nguyen, Huan N ^a,b   Domingues, G R ^a   Winograd, R ^a   Lammert, F ^a   Silny, J ^a   Matern, S ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b Elisabeth Krankenhaus Rheydt   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bolus transit; Coordination; Lower esophageal sphincter relaxation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ESOPHAGUS FUNCTION; ESOPHAGUS MOTILITY; FEMALE; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; HUMAN; IMPEDANCE; INTESTINE MOTILITY; INTESTINE TRANSIT TIME; LOWER ESOPHAGUS SPHINCTER; MALE; MANOMETRY; NEUROMUSCULAR FUNCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOOTH MUSCLE RELAXATION; SWALLOWING; TECHNIQUE;

ADULT; DEGLUTITION; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; ESOPHAGEAL SPHINCTER, LOWER; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MANOMETRY; MUSCLE RELAXATION; PERISTALSIS; REFERENCE VALUES;

EID: 33645558738     PISSN: 01726390     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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