The contractile deceleration point: An important physiologic landmark on oesophageal pressure topography

Neurogastroenterology and Motility

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2010, Pages

  Pandolfino, J E ^a   Leslie, E ^a   Luger, D ^a   Mitchell, B ^a   Kwiatek, M A ^a   Kahrilas, P J ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Manometry; Oesophageal pressure topography; Peristalsis; Phrenic ampulla

Indexed keywords

BARIUM;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DECELERATION; ESOPHAGUS PRESSURE; ESOPHAGUS SPASM; FEMALE; FLUOROSCOPY; HUMAN; LOWER ESOPHAGUS SPHINCTER; MALE; PERISTALSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TOPOGRAPHY; VOLUNTEER;

ADULT; DEGLUTITION; ESOPHAGOGASTRIC JUNCTION; ESOPHAGOSCOPY; ESOPHAGUS; FEMALE; FLUOROSCOPY; GASTROINTESTINAL MOTILITY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MANOMETRY; MIDDLE AGED; PERISTALSIS; TRANSDUCERS, PRESSURE;

EID: 77949287207     PISSN: 13501925     EISSN: 13652982     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2982.2009.01443.x     Document Type: Article

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