Innovations in oesophageal function testing

Digestive and Liver Disease

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 153-155

  Savarino, V ^a   Pace, F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANATOMICAL VARIATION; CAPSULE ENDOSCOPY; CATHETER; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC KIT; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; EDITORIAL; ELECTRODE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; ESOPHAGEAL PH MONITORING; ESOPHAGUS FUNCTION; ESOPHAGUS MOTILITY; ESOPHAGUS PRESSURE; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; IMPEDANCE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MANOMETRY; MULTICHANNEL INTRALUMINAL ELECTRICAL IMPEDANCE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

DEGLUTITION; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; ESOPHAGEAL PH MONITORING; ESOPHAGUS; GASTROINTESTINAL TRANSIT; HUMANS; MANOMETRY; PERISTALSIS; PRESSURE;

EID: 38749090880     PISSN: 15908658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dld.2007.11.005     Document Type: Editorial

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