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Can the upper esophageal sphincter contractile integral help classify achalasia?

BACKGROUND: The use of high-resolution manometry (HRM) in achalasia patients has revealed abnormal findings concerning upper esophageal sphincter (UES) function. The introduction of the UES contractile integral (UES-CI), as with the distal contractile integral (DCI), may complement the interpretatio...

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Autores principales: Triantafyllou, Tania, Theodoropoulos, Charalampos, Mantides, Apostolos, Chrysikos, Demosthenis, Smparounis, Spyridon, Filis, Konstantinos, Zografos, Georgios, Theodorou, Dimitrios
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hellenic Society of Gastroenterology 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6033759/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29991890
http://dx.doi.org/10.20524/aog.2018.0270