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Training in peroral endoscopic myotomy (POEM) for esophageal achalasia

Peroral endoscopic myotomy (POEM) has been developed in the context of natural orifice transluminal endoscopic surgery (NOTES) as a minimally invasive endoscopic treatment for symptomatic esophageal achalasia, which is a chronic progressive benign disease with severe morbidity and difficult manageme...

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Main Authors: Eleftheriadis, Nicholas, Inoue, Haruhiro, Ikeda, Haruo, Onimaru, Manabu, Yoshida, Akira, Hosoya, Toshihisa, Maselli, Roberta, Kudo, Shin-ei
Format: Online Article Text
Language:English
Published: Dove Medical Press 2012
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Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3414088/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22888256
http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/TCRM.S32666