Pneumatic Dilation and Laparoscopic Heller's Myotomy Equally Effective for Achalasia
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Pneumatic Dilation versus Laparoscopic Heller's Myotomy for Idiopathic Achalasia (N Engl J Med 2011;364:1807-1816)
CC This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons. org/licenses/by-nc/3.0) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. *Correspondence: Justin C Y Wu, MD Institute of Digestive Disease, The Chinese Universit...
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عنوان ژورنال: New England Journal of Medicine
سال: 2011
ISSN: 0028-4793,1533-4406
DOI: 10.1056/nejme1100693