An office guide to whole-gut transit time: Patients’ recollection of their stool form

Journal of Clinical Gastroenterology

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 1994, Pages 28-30

  Heaton, Kenneth W ^a   O’Donnell, Luke J D ^a  

^a BRISTOL ROYAL INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Constipation; Diarrhea; Intestinal transit time; Irritable bowel syndrome; Stool form

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM;

ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONSTIPATION; DIARRHEA; FECES; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTESTINE; INTESTINE TRANSIT TIME; IRRITABLE COLON; MALE; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

ADULT; COLONIC DISEASES, FUNCTIONAL; DEFECATION; FECES; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL TRANSIT; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY TAKING; QUESTIONNAIRES; RADIOGRAPHY, ABDOMINAL;

EID: 0028352315     PISSN: 01920790     EISSN: 15392031     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00004836-199407000-00008     Document Type: Article

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