Quality versus quantity: Outcomes after achalasia surgery

Digestive and Liver Disease

Volumn 38, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 551-553

  Pasricha, P J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL BRANCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CARDIOESOPHAGOMYOTOMY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DYSPHAGIA; ESOPHAGOSCOPY; ESOPHAGUS ACHALASIA; GASTROINTESTINAL MOTILITY; HUMAN; MANOMETRY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL BEING; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUESTIONNAIRE; REFLUX ESOPHAGITIS; SHORT FORM 36; STOMACH EMPTYING; STOMACH PARESIS; SYMPTOM; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33748569474     PISSN: 15908658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dld.2006.04.010     Document Type: Note

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