Botox, dilation, or myotomy? Clinical outcome of interventional and surgical therapies for achalasia

Langenbeck's Archives of Surgery

Volumn 395, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1093-1099

  Gutschow, Christian Alexander ^a   Töx, Ulrich ^a   Leers, Jessica ^a   Schäfer, Hartmut ^a   Prenzel, Klaus Ludwig ^a   Hölscher, Arnulf H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Achalasia; Balloon dilation; Botulinum toxin; Heller myotomy; Therapy

Indexed keywords

BOTULINUM TOXIN A; ONABOTULINUMTOXINA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BALLOON DILATATION; CHILD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ESOPHAGOSCOPY; ESOPHAGUS ACHALASIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTRAMUSCULAR DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETREATMENT; SMOOTH MUSCLE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BALLOON DILATION; BOTULINUM TOXINS, TYPE A; CHILD; ESOPHAGEAL ACHALASIA; ESOPHAGOSCOPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRAMUSCULAR; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE, SMOOTH; RETREATMENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 79952860205     PISSN: 14352443     EISSN: 14352451     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00423-010-0711-5     Document Type: Article

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