Oesophageal shortening: In vivo validation of high-frequency ultrasound measurements of oesophageal muscle wall thickness

Gut

Volumn 59, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 433-440

  Boesmans, Werend ^a   Vanden Berghe, Pieter ^a   Farre, Ricard ^a   Sifrim, Daniel ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; ESOPHAGUS MUCOSA; ESOPHAGUS MUSCLE; FEMALE; FLUOROSCOPY; IN VIVO STUDY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; NONHUMAN; PERISTALSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VALIDATION STUDY;

ANIMALS; CATS; DEGLUTITION; ENDOSONOGRAPHY; ESOPHAGUS; FEMALE; FLUOROSCOPY; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SMOOTH; PERISTALSIS;

EID: 77950842800     PISSN: 00175749     EISSN: 14683288     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/gut.2009.202606     Document Type: Article

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