Functional heartburn vs. non-erosive reflux disease: Similarities and differences

Alimentary Pharmacology and Therapeutics

Volumn 27, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 1103-1109

  Hershcovici, T ^a   Zimmerman, J ^a  

^a HADASSAH HEBREW UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABNORMAL FECES; ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOATING; CLINICAL FEATURE; COLON DISEASE; CONSTIPATION; DEVICE; DIARRHEA; DISEASE SEVERITY; ESOPHAGOSCOPY; ESOPHAGUS PH; FEMALE; FLATULENCE; GENDER; HEARTBURN; HUMAN; LOOSE FECES; LOWER ABDOMINAL PAIN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NON EROSIVE REFLUX DISEASE; PH MEASUREMENT; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RATING SCALE; REFLUX ESOPHAGITIS; SCORING SYSTEM; SEX RATIO; SYMPTOM;

ADULT; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ENDOSCOPY, GASTROINTESTINAL; FEMALE; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; HEARTBURN; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STATISTICS AS TOPIC;

EID: 42949176075     PISSN: 02692813     EISSN: 13652036     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2036.2008.03666.x     Document Type: Article

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