title: Methods of assessing motility of the digestive system in children.
abstract: The study of gastrointestinal motility in children has evolved during the past 25 years. Miniaturization of tools for collecting data has created opportunities to study the maturation of gastrointestinal motility patterns in infants and complaints of abdominal pain, nausea, diarrhea, constipation and distention in children. Available methods, indications for testing, and data evaluation of pediatric esophageal, gastrointestinal, and colonic motility and manometric tests are discussed.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatrics, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee 53226, USA.
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Blank
authors.forename: C T
authors.initials: CT
authors.lastname: Frantzides
mesh_terms: D002404:Catheterization / Q000295:instrumentation; D002648:Child; D004066:Digestive System Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis; D004947:Esophagus / Q000502:physiology*; D005769:Gastrointestinal Motility; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008365:Manometry; D008904:Miniaturization; D010528:Peristalsis; D014160:Transducers, Pressure