Surgical treatment of GERD: Facts, discrepancies and recommendations

European Surgery - Acta Chirurgica Austriaca

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 225-226

  Wykypiel, Heinz F ^a   Wetscher, G J ^b  

^a INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

^b Department of Surgery ^*  (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMBULATORY MONITORING; ANTIREFLUX OPERATION; DYSPHAGIA; EDITORIAL; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; HUMAN; LOWER ESOPHAGUS SPHINCTER; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; PERISTALSIS; PH MEASUREMENT; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; STOMACH FUNDOPLICATION;

EID: 33750942159     PISSN: 16821769     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10353-006-0258-4     Document Type: Editorial

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