Training in peroral endoscopic myotomy (POEM) for esophageal achalasia

Therapeutics and Clinical Risk Management

Volumn 8, Issue , 2012, Pages 329-342

  Eleftheriadis, Nicholas ^a   Inoue, Haruhiro ^a   Ikeda, Haruo ^a   Onimaru, Manabu ^a   Yoshida, Akira ^a   Hosoya, Toshihisa ^a   Maselli, Roberta ^a   Kudo, Shin Ei ^a  

^a SHOWA UNIVERSITY NORTHERN YOKOHAMA HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Heller myotomy; Non survival; Porcine esophagus; Porcine organ model

Indexed keywords

AERATION; BARIUM ENEMA; CARBON DIOXIDE INSUFFLATOR; CLIP; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DYSPHAGIA; ENDOSCOPE; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; ESOPHAGUS ACHALASIA; ESOPHAGUS MANOMETRY; ESOPHAGUS MYOTOMY; EXPERIENCE; FOOD REGURGITATION; FORCEPS; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; GENERATOR; HUMAN; JAPAN; LABORATORY TEST; MORBIDITY; MYOTOMY; NEEDLE; NONHUMAN; PERITONITIS; PERORAL ENDOSCOPIC MYOTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; REVIEW; SAFETY; SCALPEL; SCORING SYSTEM; SPHINCTER; SURGICAL EQUIPMENT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURGICAL TRAINING; SURVIVAL; SWINE; THORAX PAIN; TREATMENT INDICATION; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

EID: 84868027696     PISSN: 11766336     EISSN: 1178203X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2147/TCRM.S32666     Document Type: Review

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