Oesophagitis is common in patients with achalasia after pneumatic dilatation

Alimentary Pharmacology and Therapeutics

Volumn 23, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1197-1203

  Leeuwenburgh, I ^a   Van Dekken, H ^a   Scholten, P ^a   Hansen, B E ^a   Haringsma, J ^a   Siersema, P D ^a   Kuipers, E J ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BALLOON DILATATION; CHILD; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COHORT ANALYSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; ESOPHAGITIS; ESOPHAGUS ACHALASIA; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PNEUMATIC DILATATION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BALLOON DILATATION; BARRETT ESOPHAGUS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHRONIC DISEASE; ESOPHAGEAL ACHALASIA; ESOPHAGEAL SPHINCTER, LOWER; ESOPHAGITIS; ESOPHAGOSCOPY; ESOPHAGUS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; METAPLASIA; MIDDLE AGED; PERISTALSIS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33646870809     PISSN: 02692813     EISSN: 13652036     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2036.2006.02871.x     Document Type: Article

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