The acid pocket and its relevance to reflux disease

Gut

Volumn 57, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 285-286

  Holloway, Richard H ^a,c   Sifrim, Daniel A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^c ROYAL ADELAIDE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARDIA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ESOPHAGUS INJURY; ESOPHAGUS MUCOSA; GASTRIC PH MONITORING; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; HUMAN; LOWER ESOPHAGUS SPHINCTER; NOTE; PH ELECTRODE; POSTPRANDIAL STATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STOMACH ACID; STOMACH PH; STOMACH SECRETION;

GASTRIC ACID; GASTRIC ACIDITY DETERMINATION; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; HUMANS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; POSTPRANDIAL PERIOD; STOMACH;

EID: 39649106595     PISSN: 00175749     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/gut.2006.118414     Document Type: Note

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