Esophageal Motor and Sensory Disorders: Presentation, Evaluation, and Treatment

Gastroenterology Clinics of North America

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 553-575

  Massey, Benson T ^a  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COLON DILATATION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIET; DISEASE COURSE; ELECTROSTIMULATION; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPY; ENTEROPATHY; ESOPHAGEAL MOTOR AND SENSORY DISORDER; ESOPHAGUS ACHALASIA; ESOPHAGUS SCINTISCANNING; FLUOROSCOPY; FOOD REGURGITATION; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; GASTROINTESTINAL RADIOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INTESTINE PERFUSION; LIFESTYLE MODIFICATION; MANOMETRY; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; MYOTOMY; PROVOCATION TEST; REVIEW; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TREATMENT INDICATION;

DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DILATATION; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; ENDOSONOGRAPHY; ESOPHAGEAL MOTILITY DISORDERS; ESOPHAGOSCOPY; HUMANS; MANOMETRY; PARASYMPATHOMIMETICS; PRESSURE; PROGNOSIS; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC;

EID: 35348889818     PISSN: 08898553     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gtc.2007.07.006     Document Type: Review

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