Factors Associated With Postoperative Symptoms After Laparoscopic Heller Myotomy

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 89, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 392-396

  Finley, Christian J ^a   Kondra, Jennifer ^b   Clifton, Joanne ^b   Yee, John ^b   Finley, Richard ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOTULINUM TOXIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYSPHAGIA; ESOPHAGUS ACHALASIA; FEMALE; HEARTBURN; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPIC HELLER MYOTOMY; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LOWER ESOPHAGUS SPHINCTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYOTOMY; PNEUMATIC DILATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; STOMACH FUNDOPLICATION;

ADULT; AGED; BALLOON DILATATION; BOTULINUM TOXIN TYPE A; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DEGLUTITION DISORDERS; ESOPHAGEAL ACHALASIA; ESOPHAGEAL SPHINCTER, LOWER; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FUNDOPLICATION; HEARTBURN; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REGURGITATION, GASTRIC; REOPERATION;

EID: 74549115108     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2009.10.046     Document Type: Article

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