Severe Idiopathic Constipation Is Associated With a Distinctive Abnormality of the Colonic Myenteric Plexus

Gastroenterology

Volumn 88, Issue 1, 1985, Pages 26-34

  Krishnamurthy, Shoba ^a,b   Schuffler, Michael D ^a,b   Rohrmann, Charles A ^a,b   Pope, Charles E ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RADIOISOTOPE; TECHNETIUM 99M;

AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; BARIUM ENEMA; CONSTIPATION; DIAGNOSIS; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; ESOPHAGUS; ESOPHAGUS PRESSURE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; INTESTINE MUSCLE; LARGE INTESTINE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MYENTERIC PLEXUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM BIOPSY; SMALL INTESTINE; STOMACH; STOMACH EMPTYING; THERAPY;

ADULT; BIOPSY; COLECTOMY; COLON; CONSTIPATION; ESOPHAGUS; FEMALE; GASTRIC EMPTYING; GASTROINTESTINAL SYSTEM; HUMAN; MANOMETRY; MIDDLE AGE; MYENTERIC PLEXUS; NEURONS; RECTUM; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.;

EID: 0021989653     PISSN: 00165085     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0016-5085(85)80128-1     Document Type: Article

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