Esophageal motor disorders: Recent advances

Current Opinion in Gastroenterology

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 417-422

  Dogan, Ibrahim ^a   Mittal, Ravinder K ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Section of Gastroenterology 111D   (United States)

Author keywords

Esophageal motility; Esophageal motor disorders; High resolution manometry; Physiology; Transient lower esophageal sphincter relaxation; Treatment; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID B RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; BACLOFEN;

ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; ESOPHAGUS ACHALASIA; ESOPHAGUS FUNCTION; ESOPHAGUS FUNCTION DISORDER; ESOPHAGUS MOTILITY; ESOPHAGUS SPASM; ESOPHAGUS SURGERY; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; HUMAN; IMAGING; IMPEDANCE; LOWER ESOPHAGUS SPHINCTER; MANOMETRY; MEDICAL LITERATURE; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; REVIEW; ULTRASOUND;

ANIMALS; ESOPHAGEAL MOTILITY DISORDERS; ESOPHAGUS; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; MANOMETRY; PERISTALSIS; PRESSURE; PROGNOSIS;

EID: 33746220207     PISSN: 02671379     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.mog.0000231818.64138.8a     Document Type: Review

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