Bravo Catheter-Free pH Monitoring: Normal Values, Concordance, Optimal Diagnostic Thresholds, and Accuracy

Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 60-67

  Ayazi, Shahin ^a   Lipham, John C ^a   Portale, Giuseppe ^a   Peyre, Christian G ^a   Streets, Christopher G ^a   Leers, Jessica M ^a   DeMeester, Steven R ^a   Banki, Farzaneh ^a   Chan, Linda S ^a   Hagen, Jeffrey A ^a   DeMeester, Tom R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ESOPHAGEAL PH MONITORING; ESOPHAGUS MANOMETRY; EXPOSURE; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; HUMAN; LOWER ESOPHAGUS SPHINCTER; NORMAL VALUE; NOSE; PARAMETER; PH; STOMACH ACID;

CAPSULE ENDOSCOPY; ESOPHAGEAL PH MONITORING; ESOPHAGUS; HUMANS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; REFERENCE VALUES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 58049191399     PISSN: 15423565     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cgh.2008.08.020     Document Type: Article

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