Endoscopic therapy for achalasia before heller myotomy results in worse outcomes than heller myotomy alone

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 243, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 579-584

  Smith, C Daniel ^a   Stival, Alessandro ^a   Howell, D Lee ^a   Swafford, Vickie ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOTULINUM TOXIN A;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CARDIOESOPHAGOMYOTOMY; DATA ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM PERFORATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DYSPHAGIA; ENDOSCOPIC THERAPY; ESOPHAGUS ACHALASIA; ESOPHAGUS DILATATION; ESOPHAGUS RESECTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LUNG COMPLICATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PEROPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANK SUM TEST; RECURRENT DISEASE; REFLUX ESOPHAGITIS; REOPERATION; SCHOOL CHILD; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SYMPTOM; THORAX PAIN; TREATMENT FAILURE; CHILD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ESOPHAGOSCOPY; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; SMOOTH MUSCLE; ANTIREFLUX OPERATION; BALLOON DILATATION; DIVERTICULOSIS; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; INFLAMMATION; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LAPAROTOMY; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; NOTE; STENT; STOMACH FUNDOPLICATION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THORACOSCOPY; THORACOTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; ESOPHAGEAL ACHALASIA; ESOPHAGECTOMY; ESOPHAGOSCOPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE, SMOOTH; PREOPERATIVE CARE;

EID: 33748119821     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.sla.0000217524.75529.2d     Document Type: Article

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