Downstream effects of esophageal distention

Current Gastroenterology Reports

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 186-189

  Licht, Harvey ^b   Fisher, Robert S ^a  

^a TEMPLE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BALLOON DILATATION; BOLUS INJECTION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ESOPHAGUS ACHALASIA; ESOPHAGUS DILATATION; ESOPHAGUS MOTILITY; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HUMAN; INNERVATION; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LOWER ESOPHAGUS SPHINCTER; LUNG DISEASE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; SWALLOWING; THORAX PAIN;

DEGLUTITION; DILATATION; ESOPHAGUS; HUMANS; PERISTALSIS; PHARYNX; REFLEX;

EID: 33745008361     PISSN: 15228037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11894-006-0073-x     Document Type: Review

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