Achalasia: A New Clinically Relevant Classification by High-Resolution Manometry

Gastroenterology

Volumn 135, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1526-1533

  Pandolfino, John E ^a   Kwiatek, Monika A ^a   Nealis, Thomas ^a   Bulsiewicz, William ^a   Post, Jennifer ^a   Kahrilas, Peter J ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; ESOPHAGUS ACHALASIA; ESOPHAGUS DILATATION; ESOPHAGUS OBSTRUCTION; ESOPHAGUS PRESSURE; ESOPHAGUS SPASM; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERVENTION STUDY; LOWER ESOPHAGUS SPHINCTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MANOMETRY; PERISTALSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

EID: 55249087622     PISSN: 00165085     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.gastro.2008.07.022     Document Type: Article

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