Laparoscopic myotomy for achalasia: Predictors of successful outcome after 200 cases

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 243, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 587-591

  Torquati, Alfonso ^a   Richards, William O ^a   Holzman, Michael D ^a   Sharp, Kenneth W ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYSPHAGIA; ESOPHAGUS ACHALASIA; ESOPHAGUS MYOTOMY; ESOPHAGUS SURGERY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LOWER ESOPHAGUS SPHINCTER PRESSURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREDICTION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SCORING SYSTEM; TREATMENT RESPONSE; CARDIOESOPHAGOMYOTOMY; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM PERFORATION; ENDOSCOPY; ESOPHAGUS DILATATION; ESOPHAGUS RESECTION; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; LIFE EXPECTANCY; LOWER ESOPHAGUS SPHINCTER; MANOMETRY; NOTE; QUESTIONNAIRE; REOPERATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; LAPAROSCOPY; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PROGNOSIS; REMISSION; SMOOTH MUSCLE;

BOTULINUM TOXIN A;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ESOPHAGEAL ACHALASIA; ESOPHAGECTOMY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE, SMOOTH; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PROGNOSIS; REMISSION INDUCTION;

EID: 33748100534     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.sla.0000216782.10502.47     Document Type: Article

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