The EAES clinical practice guidelines on laparoscopic antireflux surgery for gastroesophagel reflux disease (1997)

EAES Guidelines for Endoscopic Surgery: Twelve Years Evidence-Based Surgery in Europe

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 97-124

  Eypasch, Ernst ^a   Neugebauer, Edmund A M ^b   Fischer, F ^k   Troidl, Hans ^c   Blum, A L ^d   Collet, D ^k   Cuschieri, A ^k   Dallemagne, B ^k   Feussner, H ^e   Fuchs, K H ^a   Glise, H ^f   Kum, C K ^k   Lerut, T ^g   Lundell, L ^h   Myrvold, H E ^k   Peracchia, A ⁱ   Petersen, H ^k   Van Lanschot, J J B ^j  

^a AGAPLESION MARKUS KRANKENHAUS   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WITTEN HERDECKE   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^d LAUSANNE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^e LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^f Department of Orthopaedics   (Sweden)

^g UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^h SAHLGRENSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^j UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^k NONE

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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-32784-4_4     Document Type: Chapter

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