%0 Journal Article
%T Before and after Esophageal Surgery: Which Information Is Needed from the Functional Laboratory?
%A Ines Gockel
%A Sebastian Murad Rabe
%A Stefan Niebisch
%J Archive of "Visceral Medicine".
%D 2018
%R 10.1159/000486556
%X Indications for benign esophageal surgery and postoperative follow-up need to be highly elaborated with differentiated and structured algorithms, based on objective functional workup in the esophageal laboratory. Functional outcome is of utmost interest and has to be driven by the need for comprehensive but purposeful diagnostic methods
%K Functional esophageal assessment
%K Surgery for benign esophageal disease
%K High-resolution impedance manometry
%K 24-h pH-monitoring
%K Timed barium esophagogram
%K Functional outcome
%K Quality of life
%U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5981625/