Clinical predictors of achalasia

Diseases of the Esophagus

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 76-81

  Ferri, L E ^a   Cools Lartigue, J ^a   Cao, J ^c   Miller, L ^b   Mayrand, S ^a   Fried, G M ^a   Darling, G ^b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Achalasia; Dysphagia; Manometry

Indexed keywords

ACHALASIA SYMPTOM QUESTIONNAIRE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DYSPHAGIA; ESOPHAGOGASTRODUODENOSCOPY; ESOPHAGOGRAPHY; ESOPHAGUS ACHALASIA; ESOPHAGUS MANOMETRY; GASTROINTESTINAL RADIOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS; UPPER GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT;

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CONTRAST MEDIA; DEGLUTITION DISORDERS; DILATATION, PATHOLOGIC; ENDOSCOPY, GASTROINTESTINAL; ESOPHAGEAL ACHALASIA; ESOPHAGUS; HUMANS; MANOMETRY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 77953177643     PISSN: 11208694     EISSN: 14422050     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1442-2050.2009.01006.x     Document Type: Article

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