Shorter myotomy on the gastric site (≤2.5 cm) provides adequate relief of dysphagia in achalasia patients

Diseases of the Esophagus

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 412-417

  Salvador, R ^a   Caruso, V ^b   Costantini, M ^a   Parise, P ^b   Nicoletti, L ^a   Cavallin, F ^c   Zanatta, L ^a   Bardini, R ^a   Ancona, E ^a   Zaninotto, Giovanni ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b General Surgery Unit S Giovanni e Paolo Hospital   (Italy)

^c VENETO INSTITUTE OF ONCOLOGY IOV IRCCS   (Italy)

^d ST MARY S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

achalasia; dysphagia; Heller Dor; myotomy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; CARDIOESOPHAGOMYOTOMY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE DURATION; DYSPHAGIA; ESOPHAGEAL MANOMETER; ESOPHAGEAL PH MONITORING; ESOPHAGOGRAPHY; ESOPHAGOSCOPY; ESOPHAGUS ACHALASIA; ESOPHAGUS MANOMETRY; ESOPHAGUS PRESSURE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; GENDER; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LOWER ESOPHAGUS SPHINCTER; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; REST; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SYMPTOM; THORAX PAIN; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPLICATION; DEGLUTITION DISORDERS; ESOPHAGEAL ACHALASIA; ESOPHAGUS; LAPAROSCOPY; MANOMETRY; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROCEDURES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STOMACH FUNDOPLICATION; STOMACH FUNDUS;

ADULT; DEGLUTITION DISORDERS; ESOPHAGEAL ACHALASIA; ESOPHAGUS; FEMALE; FUNDOPLICATION; GASTRIC FUNDUS; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; MALE; MANOMETRY; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84899034452     PISSN: 11208694     EISSN: 14422050     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/dote.12226     Document Type: Article

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