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Research Article Free access | 10.1172/JCI103780

THE CHARACTERISTICS AND SIMILARITY OF PRIMARY AND SECONDARY PERISTALSIS IN THE ESOPHAGUS

Bertram Fleshler, Thomas R. Hendrix, Philip Kramer, and Franz J. Ingelfinger

Evans Memorial, Massachusetts Memorial Hospitals and Department of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Mass.

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Work performed during period as Public Health Service Research Fellow of the National Cancer Institute. Present address: Department of Medicine, Cleveland Metropolitan General Hospital, Cleveland 9, Ohio.

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Presented in part at the meeting of the Gastroenterology Research Group, Colorado Springs, Colo., May 23, 1957.

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Evans Memorial, Massachusetts Memorial Hospitals and Department of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Mass.

†

Work performed during period as Public Health Service Research Fellow of the National Cancer Institute. Present address: Department of Medicine, Cleveland Metropolitan General Hospital, Cleveland 9, Ohio.

*

Presented in part at the meeting of the Gastroenterology Research Group, Colorado Springs, Colo., May 23, 1957.

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Evans Memorial, Massachusetts Memorial Hospitals and Department of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Mass.

†

Work performed during period as Public Health Service Research Fellow of the National Cancer Institute. Present address: Department of Medicine, Cleveland Metropolitan General Hospital, Cleveland 9, Ohio.

*

Presented in part at the meeting of the Gastroenterology Research Group, Colorado Springs, Colo., May 23, 1957.

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Evans Memorial, Massachusetts Memorial Hospitals and Department of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Mass.

†

Work performed during period as Public Health Service Research Fellow of the National Cancer Institute. Present address: Department of Medicine, Cleveland Metropolitan General Hospital, Cleveland 9, Ohio.

*

Presented in part at the meeting of the Gastroenterology Research Group, Colorado Springs, Colo., May 23, 1957.

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Published January 1, 1959 - More info

Published in Volume 38, Issue 1 on January 1, 1959
J Clin Invest. 1959;38(1):110–116. https://doi.org/10.1172/JCI103780.
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