The Long-term Efficacy of Pneumatic Dilatation and Heller Myotomy for the Treatment of Achalasia

Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 580-587

  Vela, Marcelo F ^a   Richter, Joel E ^a   Khandwala, Farah ^a   Blackstone, Eugene H ^a   Wachsberger, Don ^a   Baker, Mark E ^a   Rice, Thomas W ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BARIUM;

ADULT; ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BALLOON DILATATION; CARDIOESOPHAGOMYOTOMY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYSPHAGIA; ENDOSCOPY; ESOPHAGUS ACHALASIA; ESOPHAGUS DILATATION; ESOPHAGUS MOTILITY; EVALUATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; GROUPS BY AGE; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTERVIEW; LAPAROSCOPY; LONG TERM CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MANOMETRY; ORGAN SIZE; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PNEUMATIC TOOL; PREVALENCE; RECURRENT DISEASE; REFLUX ESOPHAGITIS; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; SHORT COURSE THERAPY; SYMPTOM; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TELECONSULTATION; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; BALLOON DILATATION; COHORT STUDIES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ESOPHAGEAL ACHALASIA; ESOPHAGEAL SPHINCTER, LOWER; ESOPHAGOSCOPY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; MALE; MANOMETRY; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SATISFACTION; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33646121275     PISSN: 15423565     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1542-3565(05)00986-9     Document Type: Article

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