Minimally invasive surgery for achalasia in patients >40 years: More favorable than anticipated

Langenbeck's Archives of Surgery

Volumn 397, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 69-74

  Gockel, Ines ^a   Gith, Alexandra ^a   Drescher, Daniel ^a   Jungmann, Florian ^a   Eckhard, Lukas ^a   Lang, Hauke ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER MAINZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

Achalasia; Dor semifundoplication; Eckardt score; Gastrointestinal quality of life index (GQLI); Minimally invasive Heller myotomy

Indexed keywords

BOTULINUM TOXIN A; PROTON PUMP INHIBITOR;

ABDOMINAL DISEASE; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ANTERIOR SEMIFUNDOPLICATION; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION PNEUMONIA; BALLOON DILATATION; BODY MASS; CARDIOESOPHAGOMYOTOMY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYSPHAGIA; ESOPHAGUS ACHALASIA; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; GASTROINTESTINAL QUALITY OF LIFE INDEX; HUMAN; INTUBATION; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEGAESOPHAGUS; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT SAFETY; PLEURA EFFUSION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREDICTION; PREOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFLUX ESOPHAGITIS; REOPERATION; RETROSTERNAL PAIN; SEX DIFFERENCE; STENT; STOMACH FUNDOPLICATION; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ESOPHAGEAL ACHALASIA; ESOPHAGUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MINIMALLY INVASIVE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 82455164285     PISSN: 14352443     EISSN: 14352451     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00423-011-0832-5     Document Type: Article

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