SAGES guidelines for the surgical treatment of esophageal achalasia

Surgical Endoscopy

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 296-311

  Stefanidis, Dimitrios ^a   Richardson, William ^b   Farrell, Timothy M ^c   Kohn, Geoffrey P ^d   Augenstein, Vedra ^a   Fanelli, Robert D ^e  

^a LEVINE CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b OCHSNER CLINIC FOUNDATION   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^d Knox Private Hospital   (Australia)

^e BERKSHIRE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOTULINUM TOXIN; CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKING AGENT; ISOSORBIDE DINITRATE; LONG ACTING DRUG; NIFEDIPINE; NITRIC ACID DERIVATIVE;

DISEASE CONTROL; ENDOSCOPIC THERAPY; ESOPHAGOSCOPY; ESOPHAGUS ACHALASIA; ESOPHAGUS DILATATION; ESOPHAGUS DIVERTICULOSIS; ESOPHAGUS MYOTOMY; ESOPHAGUS PERFORATION; ESOPHAGUS RESECTION; ESOPHAGUS STENT; ESOPHAGUS SURGERY; ESOPHAGUS ULCER; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; HEART MUSCLE CONDUCTION DISTURBANCE; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LOWER ESOPHAGUS SPHINCTER PRESSURE; MEDIASTINITIS; MEDICAL SOCIETY; META ANALYSIS; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; OPERATION DURATION; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PATIENT SAFETY; PLEURA EFFUSION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREDICTION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; STENT; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL RISK; SURGICAL STAPLING; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SYMPTOM; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84857057511     PISSN: 09302794     EISSN: 14322218     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00464-011-2017-2     Document Type: Review

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