Eosinophilic Esophagitis and Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease: There and Back Again

Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 99-101

  Hirano, Ikuo ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EOTAXIN 3; MESSENGER RNA; PROTON PUMP INHIBITOR; RABEPRAZOLE; STEROID;

DIET THERAPY; DYSPHAGIA; EDITORIAL; ENDOSCOPY; EOSINOPHIL; EOSINOPHILIC ESOPHAGITIS; ESOPHAGOGASTRODUODENOSCOPY; ESOPHAGUS BIOPSY; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; HEARTBURN; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; MAST CELL; PEDIATRICS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REFLUX ESOPHAGITIS; STEROID THERAPY; STOMACH ACID; STOMACH PH; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

2-PYRIDINYLMETHYLSULFINYLBENZIMIDAZOLES; EOSINOPHILIC ESOPHAGITIS; ESOPHAGEAL PH MONITORING; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; HUMANS; PROTON PUMP INHIBITORS;

EID: 78751690430     PISSN: 15423565     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cgh.2010.11.001     Document Type: Editorial

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