Esophageal motility disorders

Known as: Disorders, Esophageal Motility, motility disorders esophageal, Esophageal Dysmotilities 
Disorders affecting the motor function of the UPPER ESOPHAGEAL SPHINCTER; LOWER ESOPHAGEAL SPHINCTER; the ESOPHAGUS body, or a combination of these… (More)
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Highly Cited
2015
Highly Cited
2015
The Chicago Classification of esophageal motility disorders, v3.0.
BACKGROUND The Chicago Classification (CC) of esophageal motility disorders, utilizing an algorithmic scheme to analyze clinical… (More)
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2012
Review
2012
Chicago classification criteria of esophageal motility disorders defined in high resolution esophageal pressure topography.
BACKGROUND The Chicago Classification of esophageal motility was developed to facilitate the interpretation of clinical high… (More)
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2008
Review
2008
Esophageal motility disorders in terms of pressure topography: the Chicago Classification.
Two recent advances have revolutionized the performance of clinical esophageal manometry; the introduction of practical high… (More)
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Highly Cited
2008
Highly Cited
2008
Classifying Esophageal Motility by Pressure Topography Characteristics: A Study of 400 Patients and 75 Controls
AIM:This study aimed to devise a scheme for the systematic analysis of esophageal high-resolution manometry (HRM) studies… (More)
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2006
Review
2006
Functional esophageal disorders.
Functional esophageal disorders represent processes accompanied by typical esophageal symptoms (heartburn, chest pain, dysphagia… (More)
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Highly Cited
2002
Highly Cited
2002
American Cancer Society Guidelines on Nutrition and Physical Activity for cancer prevention: reducing the risk of cancer with healthy food choices and physical activity.
The American Cancer Society (ACS) publishes Nutrition and Physical Activity Guidelines to serve as a foundation for its… (More)
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Review
2001
Review
2001
Oesophageal motility disorders
Oesophageal motility disorders comprise various abnormal manometric patterns which usually present with dysphagia or chest pain… (More)
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Highly Cited
2001
Highly Cited
2001
Esophageal motility in reflux disease before and after fundoplication: a prospective, randomized, clinical, and manometric study.
BACKGROUND AND AIMS The purpose of this study was to determine whether esophageal dysmotility affects symptoms of… (More)
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Highly Cited
1997
Highly Cited
1997
Ineffective Esophageal Motility (IEM) (The Primary Finding in Patients with Nonspecific Esophageal Motility Disorder)
Nonspecific esophageal motility disorder (NEMD)is a vague category used to include patients with poorlydefined esophageal… (More)
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Highly Cited
1993
Highly Cited
1993
Esophageal eosinophilia with dysphagia. A distinct clinicopathologic syndrome.
Small numbers of intraepithelial esophageal eosinophils (IEE) may be seen in 50% of patients with gastroesophageal reflux disease… (More)
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