Comparison of esophageal motility impairment caused by Chagas' disease in two age groups

Arquivos de Gastroenterologia

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 196-200

  Dantas, Roberto Oliveira ^a   Aprile, Lilian Rose Otoboni ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Achalasia; Aging; Chagas' disease; Esophageal motility; Esophagus

Indexed keywords

BARIUM SULFATE;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CHAGAS DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE DURATION; DYSPHAGIA; ESOPHAGUS FUNCTION DISORDER; ESOPHAGUS MOTILITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MANOMETRY;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGING; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHAGAS DISEASE; ESOPHAGEAL ACHALASIA; ESOPHAGEAL MOTILITY DISORDERS; ESOPHAGUS; FEMALE; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; HUMANS; MALE; MANOMETRY; MIDDLE AGED; PERISTALSIS;

EID: 33845564548     PISSN: 00042803     EISSN: 16784219     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S0004-28032006000300008     Document Type: Article

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