Technological insights: Combined impedance manometry for esophageal motility testing-current results and further implications

World Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 12, Issue 39, 2006, Pages 6266-6273

  Nguyen, Huan Nam ^a,d   Domingues, Gerson Ricardo Souza ^b   Lammert, Frank ^c  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b GAMA FILHO UNIVERSITY   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^d Elisabeth Krankenhaus Rheydt   (Germany)

Author keywords

Combined impedance manometry; Esophageal function testing; Review

Indexed keywords

AIRFLOW; BASIC RESEARCH; CLINICAL RESEARCH; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; ESOPHAGUS ACHALASIA; ESOPHAGUS FUNCTION; ESOPHAGUS MANOMETRY; ESOPHAGUS MOTILITY; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; HUMAN; LOWER ESOPHAGUS SPHINCTER; METHODOLOGY; PERISTALSIS; REVIEW; STANDARDIZATION; SWALLOWING;

EID: 33750799106     PISSN: 10079327     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3748/wjg.v12.i39.6266     Document Type: Review

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