Surgical Treatment of Epiphrenic Diverticula: A 30-Year Experience

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 84, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1801-1809

  Varghese Jr , Thomas K ^a   Marshall, Becky ^a   Chang, Andrew C ^a   Pickens, Allan ^a   Lau, Christine L ^a   Orringer, Mark B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANTIREFLUX OPERATION; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYSPHAGIA; ESOPHAGOSCOPY; ESOPHAGUS DILATATION; ESOPHAGUS DIVERTICULOSIS; ESOPHAGUS MYOTOMY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MANOMETRY; MORBIDITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFLUX ESOPHAGITIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THORAX PAIN; TRANSBRONCHIAL BIOPSY; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM SURGICAL PROCEDURES; DIVERTICULUM, ESOPHAGEAL; ESOPHAGEAL MOTILITY DISORDERS; ESOPHAGUS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 36248933251     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2007.06.057     Document Type: Article

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