Wireless pH recording immediately above the squamocolumnar junction improves the diagnostic performance of esophageal pH studies

American Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 103, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 2977-2985

  Wenner, Jörgen ^a   Hall, Mats ^a   Höglund, Peter ^a   Johansson, Jan ^a   Johnsson, Folke ^a   Öberg, Stefan ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ESOPHAGEAL PH MONITORING; ESOPHAGUS; ESOPHAGUS PH; FEMALE; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; HUMAN; LOWER ESOPHAGUS SPHINCTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PH ELECTRODE; PH MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SQUAMOCOLUMNAR JUNCTION; AGED; COMPARATIVE STUDY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PH;

ADULT; AGED; ESOPHAGEAL PH MONITORING; ESOPHAGUS; FEMALE; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; HUMANS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 58149384457     PISSN: 00029270     EISSN: 15720241     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1572-0241.2008.02174.x     Document Type: Article

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