Achalasia mistaken as eating disorders: Report of two children and review of the literature

European Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Volumn 22, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 775-778

  Däbritz, Jan ^a   Domagk, Dirk ^a   Monninger, Martina ^a   Foell, Dirk ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

achalasia; anorexia nervosa; bulimia nervosa; diagnosis; dysphagia; eating disorder

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADOLESCENT; ASPIRATION PNEUMONIA; BULIMIA; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EATING DISORDER; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; ESOPHAGOGASTRODUODENOSCOPY; ESOPHAGOGRAPHY; ESOPHAGUS ACHALASIA; ESOPHAGUS STENOSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MEGAESOPHAGUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; VOMITING; WEIGHT REDUCTION; CATHETERIZATION; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; EATING DISORDERS; ESOPHAGEAL ACHALASIA; PSYCHOTHERAPY; SCINTISCANNING;

ADOLESCENT; CATHETERIZATION; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; EATING DISORDERS; ESOPHAGEAL ACHALASIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; PSYCHOTHERAPY; WEIGHT LOSS;

EID: 77954020680     PISSN: 0954691X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MEG.0b013e3283325d71     Document Type: Review

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