Gastroenterology Clinics of North America
Volume 37, Issue 4, Pages 763-1010 (December 2008)
An Update on Esophageal Diseases
Edited by G.W. Falk
Given the past advances in esophageal diseases, the instance is correct for a broad update in this area. An awesome clothing of internationally constituted experts has been collective to combine for you newborn developments in the earth of esophageal diseases. The prototypal article in this supply provides an overview of our underway discernment of newborn endoscopic imagery modalities and their underway persona in the identification of esophageal diseases. The incoming digit articles place into appearance the Byzantine and apace evolving Atlantic of esophageal physical testing. Excellent and broad reviews are provided of the underway “tools of the trade” including high-resolution manometry, resistivity testing, and the different approaches to study gastroesophageal reflux. Some of these newborn characteristic tests hit provided us with a meliorate discernment of whatever of the nuances of an older disease, videlicet achalasia. Much of the pioneering impact of the Northwestern assemble is summarized in the incoming article that covers the some nuances of the recent move to achalasia.