Differences in Anal Sphincter Function and Clinical Presentation in Patients With Pelvic Floor Descent

Gastroenterology

Volumn 85, Issue 1, 1983, Pages 68-75

  Bartolo, D C C ^a   Read, N W ^a   Jarratt, J A ^a   Read, M G ^a   Donnelly, T C ^a   Johnson, A G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANORECTAL PRESSURE; CONSTIPATION; DESCENDING PERINEUM SYNDROME; DIAGNOSIS; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FECES INCONTINENCE; HUMAN; LARGE INTESTINE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MANOMETRY; METHODOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ADULT; AGED; ANAL CANAL; DEFECATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FECAL INCONTINENCE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MANOMETRY; MIDDLE AGED; PELVIS; PERINEUM; PRESSURE; REFLEX, ABNORMAL;

EID: 0020600543     PISSN: 00165085     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0016-5085(83)80231-5     Document Type: Article

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