Quantifying esophageal peristalsis with high-resolution manometry: A study of 75 asymptomatic volunteers

American Journal of Physiology - Gastrointestinal and Liver Physiology

Volumn 290, Issue 5, 2006, Pages

  Ghosh, Sudip K ^a   Pandolfino, John E ^a   Zhang, Qing ^a   Jarosz, Andrew ^a   Shah, Nimeesh ^a   Kahrilas, Peter J ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Esophageal transition zone; Intraluminal pressure gradient; Peristalic amplitude

Indexed keywords

WATER;

ADULT; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESOPHAGUS MOTILITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOPHARYNX; LOWER ESOPHAGUS SPHINCTER; MALE; MANOMETRY; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE RELAXATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRESSURE GRADIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RECORDING; SENSOR; SOLID STATE; STOMACH; SWALLOWING; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; VELOCITY;

ADULT; ESOPHAGUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MANOMETRY; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; OBSERVER VARIATION; PERISTALSIS; PRESSURE; REFERENCE VALUES; STATISTICS;

EID: 33645798887     PISSN: 01931857     EISSN: 15221547     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpgi.00510.2005     Document Type: Article

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