Obesity: a challenge to esophagogastric junction integrity.

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Published in Gastroenterology on March 01, 2006

Authors

John E Pandolfino1, Hashem B El-Serag, Qing Zhang, Nimeesh Shah, Sudip K Ghosh, Peter J Kahrilas

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Medicine, Northwestern University, The Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, USA.

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