Achalasia with dense eosinophilic infiltrate responds to steroid therapy

Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Volumn 9, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1104-1106

  Savarino, Edoardo ^a   Gemignani, Lorenzo ^a   Zentilin, Patrizia ^a   De Bortoli, Nicola ^a   Malesci, Alberto ^b   Mastracci, Luca ^c   Fiocca, Roberto ^c   Savarino, Vincenzo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^b HUMANITAS CLINICAL AND RESEARCH CENTER   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Achalasia; Eosinophilic Infiltrate; High Resolution Impedance Manometry

Indexed keywords

ESOMEPRAZOLE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; PREDNISOLONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; DENSE EOSINOPHILIC INFILTRATION; DYSPHAGIA; EOSINOPHIL COUNT; EOSINOPHILIA; EOSINOPHILIC ESOPHAGITIS; ESOPHAGUS ACHALASIA; ESOPHAGUS BIOPSY; ESOPHAGUS MANOMETRY; ESOPHAGUS MOTILITY; HELICOBACTER INFECTION; HIGH RESOLUTION IMPEDANCE MANOMETRY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LOWER ESOPHAGUS SPHINCTER; MALE; STOMACH BIOPSY; TREATMENT DURATION;

ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; BIOPSY; EOSINOPHILIC ESOPHAGITIS; ESOPHAGEAL ACHALASIA; ESOPHAGUS; HISTOCYTOCHEMISTRY; HUMANS; MALE; MANOMETRY; STEROIDS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 82955232931     PISSN: 15423565     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cgh.2011.08.002     Document Type: Article

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