Manometry and impedance characteristics of achalasia. Facts and myths

Journal of Clinical Gastroenterology

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 266-270

  Agrawal, Amit ^a   Hila, Amine ^a   Tutuian, Radu ^a   Castell, Donald O ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Achalasia; Esophageal motility; Impedance

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ESOPHAGEAL MANOMETRY; ESOPHAGUS ACHALASIA; ESOPHAGUS MOTILITY; ESOPHAGUS PRESSURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LOWER ESOPHAGUS SPHINCTER; LOWER ESOPHAGUS SPHINCTER PRESSURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MANOMETRY; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MULTICHANNEL INTRALUMINAL IMPEDANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DEGLUTITION; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; ESOPHAGEAL ACHALASIA; ESOPHAGUS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GASTROINTESTINAL MOTILITY; HUMANS; MALE; MANOMETRY; MIDDLE AGED; PRESSURE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 39749184120     PISSN: 01920790     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.mcg.0000248013.78020.b4     Document Type: Article

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