24-h pH monitoring patterns and clinical response after achalasia treatment with pneumatic dilation or laparoscopic Heller myotomy

Alimentary Pharmacology and Therapeutics

Volumn 32, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1257-1265

  Novais, P A ^a   Lemme, E M O ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CARDIOESOPHAGOMYOTOMY; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYSPHAGIA; ESOPHAGEAL PH MONITORING; ESOPHAGUS ACHALASIA; ESOPHAGUS MANOMETRY; ESOPHAGUS SURGERY; FEMALE; FERMENTATION; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; HEARTBURN; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPIC HELLER MYOTOMY; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LOWER ESOPHAGUS SPHINCTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PNEUMATIC DILATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; STOMACH FUNDOPLICATION; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

ADULT; AGED; DILATATION; ESOPHAGEAL ACHALASIA; FEMALE; GASTRIC ACIDITY DETERMINATION; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 78249257004     PISSN: 02692813     EISSN: 13652036     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2036.2010.04461.x     Document Type: Article

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