Intestinal Dysmotility Syndromes in the Elderly: Measurement of Orocecal Transit Time

The American Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 85, Issue 2, 1990, Pages 161-164

  Piccione, Paul R ^a,b   Holt, Peter R ^a,b   Culpepper‐Morgan, Joan A ^a,b   Paris, Philip ^a,b   O'Bryan, Laura ^a,b   Ferdinands, Lillian ^a,b   Kreek, Mary Jeanne ^a,b  

^a Rockefeller University ^*  (United States)

^b Daughters of Jacob Geriatric Center ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL TRANSIT TIME; HUMAN; INTESTINE MOTILITY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BREATH TESTS; CECUM; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL MOTILITY; GASTROINTESTINAL TRANSIT; HUMAN; HYDROGEN; INTESTINAL DISEASES; MALE; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; SYNDROME; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0025014565     PISSN: 00029270     EISSN: 15720241     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1572-0241.1990.tb11879.x     Document Type: Article

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