Nutcracker esophagus - A nut hard to swallow

Journal of Clinical Gastroenterology

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 464-466

  Fass, Ronnie ^a,b   Dickman, Ram ^a,b  

^a SOUTHERN ARIZONA VA HEALTH CARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; SPASMOLYTIC AGENT;

DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; ECHOGRAPHY; EDITORIAL; ESOPHAGUS MOTILITY; ESOPHAGUS MUSCLE; ESOPHAGUS SPASM; FOLLOW UP; GASTROINTESTINAL MOTILITY; HIGH AMPLITUDE PERISTALTIC ESOPHAGEAL CONTRACTION; HUMAN; INTESTINE TRANSIT TIME; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERISTALSIS; PH MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOOTH MUSCLE CONTRACTION; SWALLOWING;

ENDOSONOGRAPHY; ESOPHAGEAL MOTILITY DISORDERS; ESOPHAGUS; HUMANS; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SMOOTH; PERISTALSIS;

EID: 33748273073     PISSN: 01920790     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00004836-200607000-00002     Document Type: Editorial

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