The position of the acid pocket as a major risk factor for acidic reflux in healthy subjects and patients with GORD

Gut

Volumn 59, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 441-451

  Beaumont, Hanneke ^a   Bennink, Roelof J ^a   De Jong, Jan ^a   Boeckxstaens, Guy E ^a,b  

^a ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PERTECHNETIC ACID TC 99M;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; HIATUS HERNIA; HUMAN; MANOMETRY; POSTPRANDIAL STATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; STOMACH ACID; STOMACH PH;

ADULT; AGED; ESOPHAGOGASTRIC JUNCTION; FEMALE; GASTRIC ACID; GASTRIC ACIDITY DETERMINATION; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; HERNIA, HIATAL; HUMANS; MALE; MANOMETRY; MIDDLE AGED; POSTPRANDIAL PERIOD; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; RISK FACTORS; SODIUM PERTECHNETATE TC 99M; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77950799816     PISSN: 00175749     EISSN: 14683288     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/gut.2009.178061     Document Type: Article

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