Peroral endoscopic myotomy for the treatment of achalasia: A prospective single center study

American Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 107, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 411-417

  Von Renteln, Daniel ^a   Inoue, Haruhiro ^b   Minami, Hiromi ^b   Werner, Yuki Birgit ^a   Pace, Andrea ^a   Kersten, Jan Felix ^a   Much, Chressen Catharina ^a   Schachschal, Guido ^a   Mann, Oliver ^a   Keller, Jutta ^c   Fuchs, Karl Hermann ^d   Rösch, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^b SHOWA UNIVERSITY NORTHERN YOKOHAMA HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^c Department of Internal Medicine   (Germany)

^d AGAPLESION MARKUS KRANKENHAUS   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; ESOPHAGOGASTRODUODENOSCOPY; ESOPHAGUS ACHALASIA; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LOWER ESOPHAGUS SPHINCTER; MALE; MYOTOMY; PERORAL ENDOSCOPIC MYOTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; ESOPHAGEAL ACHALASIA; ESOPHAGOSCOPY; ESOPHAGUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MANOMETRY; MIDDLE AGED; NATURAL ORIFICE ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84857919178     PISSN: 00029270     EISSN: 15720241     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ajg.2011.388     Document Type: Article

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