Improving the surgery for sigmoid achalasia: long-term results of a technical detail

European Journal of Cardio-thoracic Surgery

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 827-833

  Faccani, Enrico ^a   Mattioli, Sandro ^a   Lugaresi, Maria Luisa ^a   Di Simone, Massimo Pierluigi ^a   Bartalena, Tommaso ^b   Pilotti, Vladimiro ^a  

^a Division of Esophageal and Pulmonary Surgery Villa Maria Cecilia e San Pier Damiano Hospitals   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Achalasia; Oesophageal benign diseases; Oesophageal motility; Oesophageal surgery; Oesophagus

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIOESOPHAGOMYOTOMY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYSPHAGIA; ESOPHAGITIS; ESOPHAGUS ACHALASIA; ESOPHAGUS SURGERY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; HUMAN; LOWER ESOPHAGUS SPHINCTER; MALE; MANOMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RADIODIAGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SHORT FORM 36; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DEGLUTITION DISORDERS; ESOPHAGEAL ACHALASIA; ESOPHAGITIS, PEPTIC; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GASTROINTESTINAL MOTILITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 35748971002     PISSN: 10107940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejcts.2007.09.009     Document Type: Article

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