Never judge a book by its cover: the role of timed barium esophagography in patients with complete symptom relief after peroral endoscopic myotomy

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Tae Hee Lee (Institute for Digestive Research, Digestive Disease Center, Soonchunhyang University Seoul Hospital)

This work was supported by the Soonchunhyang University Research Fund.

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