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Achalasia in a Patient with Myotonic Dystrophy

Myotonic dystrophy is a progressive disorder mainly affecting the voluntary muscles. We herein report a rare case of myotonic dystrophy complicated with high-resolution manometry-defined achalasia, the pathology of which is absent relaxation of the smooth muscles of lower esophageal sphincter (LES)....

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Autores principales: Sato, Hiroki, Mizuno, Ken-ichi, Hashimoto, Satoru, Takatsuna, Masafumi, Terai, Shuji
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Japanese Society of Internal Medicine 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6995719/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31511482
http://dx.doi.org/10.2169/internalmedicine.3360-19