Open AccessSleeve Recording of Upper Esophageal Sphincter Resting Pressures During Cricopharyngeal Myotomy
Author(s) -
Manuel Pera,
Akira Yamada,
Clement A. Hiebert,
André Duranceau
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
annals of surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 4.153
H-Index - 309
eISSN - 1528-1140
pISSN - 0003-4932
DOI - 10.1097/00000658-199702000-00012
Subject(s) - medicine , myotomy , cricopharyngeal myotomy , dysphagia , surgery , esophagus , anesthesia , achalasia
The manometric effects of a 6-cm cricopharyngeal myotomy are recorded while the operation is being performed from cervical esophagus to the cricopharyngeus and then to the hypopharynx.