Esophageal Motility Disorders: Current Concepts of Pathogenesis and Treatment

Predictors of outcome in patients with achalasia treated by pneumatic dilation

1992 • 719 citations

Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease

1996 • 585 citations

Effect of peristaltic dysfunction on esophageal volume clearance

1988 • 580 citations

Intrasphincteric Botulinum Toxin for the Treatment of Achalasia

1995 • 560 citations

AGA technical review on management of oropharyngeal dysphagia

1999 • 485 citations

Late results of a prospective randomised study comparing forceful dilatation and oesophagomyotomy in patients with achalasia.

1989 • 423 citations

Botulinum toxin for achalasia: Long-term outcome and predictors of response

1996 • 401 citations

Low-Dose Trazodone for Symptomatic Patients With Esophageal Contraction Abnormalities

1987 • 360 citations

Pharyngeal (Zenker's) diverticulum is a disorder of upper esophageal sphincter opening

1992 • 335 citations

Swallowing abnormalities and their response to treatment in Parkinson's disease

1989 • 314 citations

Five year prospective study of the incidence, clinical features, and diagnosis of achalasia in Edinburgh.

1992 • 312 citations

Treating Achalasia

1998 • 308 citations

American gastroenterological association technical review on the clinical use of esophageal manometry

1994 • 292 citations

Achalasia, Diffuse Esophageal Spasm, and Related Motility Disorders

1979 • 270 citations

Mechanisms of oral-pharyngeal dysphagia in patients with Parkinson's disease

1996 • 268 citations

High amplitude, peristaltic esophageal contractions associated with chest pain and/or dysphagia

1979 • 267 citations

Laparoscopic Heller Myotomy and Fundoplication for Achalasia

1997 • 264 citations

Isosorbide Dinitrate and Nifedipine Treatment of Achalasia: A Clinical, Manometric and Radionuclide Evaluation

1982 • 263 citations

Comparison of pseudoachalasia and achalasia

1987 • 243 citations

The effects of recombinant human hemoglobin on esophageal motor function in humans

1995 • 227 citations

Oral nifedipine in the treatment of noncardiac chest pain in patients with the nutcracker esophagus

1987 • 219 citations

The Risk of Esophageal Cancer in Patients With Achalasia

1995 • 203 citations

Diffuse Esophageal Spasm: A Reappraisal

1984 • 177 citations

Genesis of Basal Sphincter Pressure: Effect of Tetrodotoxin on Lower Esophageal Sphincter Pressure in Opossum in Vivo

1976 • 176 citations

Involvement of nitric oxide in human transient lower esophageal sphincter relaxations and esophageal primary peristalsis

1998 • 171 citations

Upper esophageal sphincter function during belching

1986 • 171 citations

Structural abnormalities of the cricopharyngeus muscle in patients with pharyngeal (Zenker's) diverticulum

1992 • 171 citations

Role of nitric oxide in esophageal peristalsis in the opossum

1992 • 167 citations

Esophageal Spasm: Clinical and Manometric Response to Nitroglycerine and Long Acting Nitrites

1977 • 158 citations

Chest pain associated with nutcracker esophagus: a preliminary study of the role of gastroesophageal reflux.

1993 • 151 citations

ANATOMIC FEATURES OF THE CARDIAC ORIFICE OF THE STOMACH

1937 • 146 citations

Oesophagomyotomy for achalasia: A 22-year experience

1993 • 140 citations

Biomechanics of cricopharyngeal bars

1990 • 138 citations

Comparison of Medical and Minimally Invasive Surgical Therapy for Primary Esophageal Motility Disorders

1995 • 126 citations

Timing, propagation, coordination, and effect of esophageal shortening during peristalsis

1997 • 125 citations

Diltiazem therapy for symptoms associated with nutcracker esophagus.

1991 • 123 citations

A wave of inhibition precedes primary peristaltic contractions in the human esophagus

1992 • 119 citations

Failing deglutitive inhibition in primary esophageal motility disorders

1994 • 118 citations

Effects of oral calcium blocker, diltiazem, on esophageal contractions

1984 • 115 citations

Symptomatic Diffuse Esophageal Spasm

1977 • 103 citations

Oropharyngeal Dysphagia

2013 • 100 citations

Topography of normal and high-amplitude esophageal peristalsis

1993 • 99 citations

Abnormal esophageal motility. An analysis of concurrent radiographic and manometric findings.

1991 • 93 citations

High-Amplitude Peristaltic Esophageal Contractions Associated With Chest Pain

1983 • 92 citations

Effects of Nifedipine in Achalasia and in Patients With High-Amplitude Peristaltic Esophageal Contractions

1984 • 87 citations

Studies of Incidence and Prevalence of Achalasia in the Nottingham Area

1985 • 78 citations

Treatment of symptomatic nonachalasia esophageal motor disorders with botulinum toxin injection at the lower esophageal sphincter

1996 • 78 citations

Dysfunction of the belch reflex

1987 • 73 citations

Efficacy of diltiazem in the treatment of diffuse oesophageal spasm

1990 • 72 citations

Pneumatic dilatation in patients with symptomatic diffuse esophageal spasm and lower esophageal sphincter dysfunction

1983 • 69 citations

Analyses of normal and abnormal esophageal transport using computer simulations

1994 • 62 citations

Diffuse Esophageal Spasm

1967 • 62 citations

Achalasia of the esophagus in a small urban community.

1969 • 60 citations

Mechanisms of airway protection and upper esophageal sphincter opening during belching

1992 • 58 citations

Long-term clinical and manometric follow-up of patients with nonspecific esophageal motor disorders.

1992 • 55 citations

Comparison of swallowing function in Parkinson's disease and progressive supranuclear palsy

1997 • 51 citations

Esophagomyotomy for noncardiac chest pain resulting from diffuse esophageal spasm and related disorders

1992 • 50 citations

Management of diffuse esophageal spasm with balloon dilatation

1992 • 49 citations

Surgery for esophageal achalasia. long-term results with three different techniques.

1996 • 49 citations

Physiologic assessment and surgical management of diffuse esophageal spasm

1992 • 47 citations

Esophageal Bougienage in Symptomatic Patients With the Nutcracker Esophagus

1984 • 45 citations

Outcome after perforation sustained during pneumatic dilatation for achalasia

1993 • 44 citations

Nifedipine Therapy for Diffuse Esophageal Spasm

1986 • 36 citations

The changing use of esophageal manometry in clinical practice

1998 • 34 citations

Lower esophageal sphincter relaxation characteristics using a sleeve sensor in clinical manometry

1998 • 33 citations

Surgery or pneumatic dilatation for achalasia: A head-to-head comparison. Now are all the questions answered?

1989 • 33 citations

Clinical implications of abnormal oesophageal motility

1987 • 32 citations

The risk of esophageal cancer in patients with achalasia. A population-based study

1995 • 25 citations

Thoracoscopic esophageal myotomy ? a surgical technique for achalasia diffuse esophageal spasm and ?nutcracker esophagus?

1994 • 20 citations

Surgical myotomy in patients with high-amplitude peristaltic esophageal contractions

1987 • 19 citations

A Long-term Clinical Review of Patients With Oesophageal Pain

1991 • 15 citations

Esophagomyotomy for noncardiac chest pain resulting from diffuse esophageal spasm and related disorders.

1992 • 13 citations

High-amplitude peristaltic esophageal contractions associated with chest pain

1983 • 12 citations

Gastroesophageal reflux disease

1996 • 11 citations

Intrasphincteric Botulinum Toxin for the Treatment of Achalasia

1995 • 7 citations

Management of dysphagia in suspected esophageal motor disorders

1991 • 7 citations

An American gastroenterological association medical position statement on the clinical use of esophageal manometry

1994 • 6 citations