Treatment of the patient with achalasia

Current Opinion in Gastroenterology

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 389-394

  Rohof, Wout O ^a   Boeckxstaens, Guy E ^a,b  

^a ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

achalasia; high resolution manometry; laparoscopic Heller myotomy; peroral endoscopic myotomy; pneumatic dilation

Indexed keywords

ANTIREFLUX OPERATION; CANCER SCREENING; CARDIOESOPHAGOMYOTOMY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; ESOPHAGEAL SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; ESOPHAGOGRAPHY; ESOPHAGUS ACHALASIA; ESOPHAGUS DILATATION; ESOPHAGUS DYSPLASIA; ESOPHAGUS HEMORRHAGE; ESOPHAGUS MANOMETRY; ESOPHAGUS MYOTOMY; ESOPHAGUS PERFORATION; FOLLOW UP; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LOWER ESOPHAGUS SPHINCTER; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); PLEURA EFFUSION; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REVIEW; STOMACH FUNDOPLICATION; TREATMENT FAILURE;

BALLOON DILATION; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; ESOPHAGEAL ACHALASIA; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; ESOPHAGEAL SPHINCTER, LOWER; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; LONG-TERM CARE;

EID: 84862297797     PISSN: 02671379     EISSN: 15317056     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MOG.0b013e328353af8f     Document Type: Review

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