A single center 26-year experience with treatment of esophageal achalasia: is there an optimal method?

Journal of Pediatric Surgery

Volumn 44, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1349-1354

  Pastor, Aimee C ^a   Mills, Jessica ^b   Marcon, Margaret A ^a,c   Himidan, Sharifa ^a   Kim, Peter C W ^a  

^a HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Childhood achalasia; Esophageal dilatation; Heller myotomy

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CARDIOESOPHAGOMYOTOMY; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYSPHAGIA; ESOPHAGUS ACHALASIA; ESOPHAGUS DILATATION; ESOPHAGUS MUCOSA; ESOPHAGUS PERFORATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FOOD REGURGITATION; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; OPERATION DURATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; STOMACH FUNDOPLICATION; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; THERAPY DELAY; THORAX PAIN; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT RESPONSE; VOMITING; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

BALLOON DILATATION; CHILD; DECISION MAKING; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ENDOSCOPY, GASTROINTESTINAL; ESOPHAGEAL ACHALASIA; ESOPHAGUS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FUNDOPLICATION; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; MALE; MANOMETRY; MUSCLE, SMOOTH; PRESSURE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 67649359520     PISSN: 00223468     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpedsurg.2008.10.117     Document Type: Article

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