[Value of manometry].
Manometry of the esophagus is essential in the diagnostic workup of patients with motility disorders of the esophagus. Before manometry organic diseases causing the symptoms should be excluded by a esophago-gastroscopy and/or a barium swallow meal. Indications for manometry are noncardiac chest pain, dysphagia of unknown origin, primary or secondary motility disorders of the esophagus and preoperative assessment before antireflux surgery.
Allgaier
H P
HP
Abteilung Innere Medizin II, Medizinische Universitätsklinik Freiburg. allgaier@mm21.ukl.uni-freiburg.de
Schwacha
H
H
Ochs
A
A
Siegerstetter
V
V
Blum
H E
HE
D002637:Chest Pain / Q000209:etiology; D003680:Deglutition Disorders / Q000209:etiology; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D015154:Esophageal Motility Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology; D006801:Humans; D008365:Manometry