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Self-expandable metal stent placement in a child for treatment of achalasia after failed Heller myotomy

Background and study aims  Childhood achalasia treatment remains inconclusive. What is next after myotomy failure? Repeated pneumatic-dilation put patients at greater risk of perforation with possible symptom recurrence. We report on a 12-year-old patient with a 1-year history of achalasia whom unde...

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Autores principales: Gugig, Roberto, Muñoz Jurado, Guillermo, Huang, Clifton, Oleas, Roberto, Robles-Medranda, Carlos
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: © Georg Thieme Verlag KG 2018
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5770269/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29344561
http://dx.doi.org/10.1055/s-0043-118745