Pseudoachalasia: Not only esophago-gastric cancer

Diseases of the Esophagus

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 168-172

  Portale, G ^a   Costantini, Mario ^a   Zaninotto, G ^a   Ruol, A ^a   Guirroli, E ^a   Rampado, S ^a   Ancona, E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Achalasia; Esophagus; Myenteric plexus; Myotomy; Pseudoachalasia

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; PROTON PUMP INHIBITOR;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BALLOON DILATATION; BARIUM ENEMA; BREAST CARCINOMA; CANCER HORMONE THERAPY; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; CARDIOESOPHAGOMYOTOMY; CASE REPORT; CHOLEDOCHOJEJUNOSTOMY; CHRONIC GASTRITIS; CHRONIC LIVER DISEASE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DYSPHAGIA; ECHOGRAPHY; ESOPHAGOSCOPY; ESOPHAGUS DILATATION; ESOPHAGUS DISEASE; ESOPHAGUS MANOMETRY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; GASTROJEJUNOSTOMY; HEPATITIS B; HISTIOCYTOSIS X; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPERSALIVATION; INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; LAPAROTOMY; LIVER DYSFUNCTION; MALE; MASTECTOMY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PANCREAS ADENOCARCINOMA; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOACHALASIA; STENT; THORAX PAIN; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA, DUCTAL, BREAST; CARCINOMA, LOBULAR; DEGLUTITION DISORDERS; ESOPHAGEAL ACHALASIA; FEMALE; HISTIOCYTOSIS, LANGERHANS-CELL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS;

EID: 34147108000     PISSN: 11208694     EISSN: 14422050     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1442-2050.2007.00664.x     Document Type: Article

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