Barrett's esophagus: Surgical treatments

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1232, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 175-195

  Parise, Paolo ^a   Rosati, Riccardo ^b   Savarino, Edoardo ^b   Locatelli, Andrea ^b   Ceolin, Martina ^b   Dua, Kulwinder S ^c   Tatum, Roger P ^d   Braghetto, Italo ^e   Gyawali, C Prakash ^f   Hejazi, Reza A ^g   Mccallum, Richard W ^g   Sarosiek, Irene ^h   Bonavina, Luigi ⁱ   Wassenaar, Eelco B ^j   Pellegrini, Carlos A ^j   Jacobson, Brian C ^k   Canon, Cheri L ^l   Badaloni, Adolfo ^m   del Genio, Gianmattia ⁿ  

^a Department of General Surgery IV   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^c MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^e HOSPITAL CLÍNICO UNIVERSIDAD DE CHILE   (Chile)

^f WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^g TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

^h TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^j UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^k BOSTON UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^l University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^m FAVALORO UNIVERSITY   (Argentina)

ⁿ SECOND UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES   (Italy)

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Author keywords

Achalasia; Antireflux surgery; Asymptomatic reflux; Bariatric surgery; Collis gastroplasty; Duodenal switch; Dysphagia; Dysplasia; Esophageal body; Esophageal motility; Gastric electrical stimulation; Gastric emptying; Gastric emptying test; Gastrostomy; Highly selective vagotomy; Impedance; Jejunostomy; LES; LES pressure; Manometry; Metaplastic epithelium; Nissen wrap; Peristalsis; Post vagotomy gastroparesis; Preoperative endoscopy; Preoperative HRM; Short esophagus; Slipped wrap; Spastic disorders; TLESR; Truncal vagotomy

Indexed keywords

LANSOPRAZOLE; OMEPRAZOLE;

ANTIREFLUX OPERATION; ARTICLE; BARIATRIC SURGERY; BARRETT ESOPHAGUS; BILIOPANCREATIC BYPASS; DISEASE COURSE; ELECTROSTIMULATION; ENDOSCOPY; ESOPHAGUS MOTILITY; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; GASTROPLASTY; HIGHLY SELECTIVE VAGOTOMY; HUMAN; LOWER ESOPHAGUS SPHINCTER; MANOMETRY; PERISTALSIS; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; REMISSION; STOMACH EMPTYING; STOMACH FUNDOPLICATION; STOMACH PARESIS;

EID: 80053178723     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2011.06051.x     Document Type: Article

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