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Treatment of achalasia by the endoscopic-pneumatic dilatation method
1Department of Surgery, Christian Albrechts University Kiel, Federal Republic of Germany.
Progress in Pediatric Surgery
|January 1, 1990
Abstract:
There is no definite cure for the loss of oesophageal peristalsis and incomplete relaxation of the lower oesophageal sphincter associated with achalasia. Pneumatic dilatation is a simple and safe method of achieving symptomatic improvement of the oesophageal passage. By this means five young patients became free of complaints within an average observation period of 6 3/4 years.