Effect of nifedipine on rectoanal motility

Diseases of the Colon and Rectum

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 212-216

  Chrysos, Emmanuel ^a   Xynos, Evaghelos ^a   Tzovaras, George ^a   Zoras, Odysseus John ^a   Tsiaoussis, John ^a   Vassilakis, Sophocles John ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF HERAKLION   (Greece)

Author keywords

Anal manometry; Anal sphincter; Anorectal motility; Nifedipine

Indexed keywords

NIFEDIPINE;

ADULT; ANORECTAL PRESSURE; ANUS FISSURE; ANUS SPHINCTER; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG SCREENING; FEMALE; HEMORRHOID; HUMAN; INTESTINE MOTILITY; MALE;

ADMINISTRATION, SUBLINGUAL; ADULT; ANAL CANAL; CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKERS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; FISSURE IN ANO; GASTROINTESTINAL MOTILITY; HEMORRHOIDS; HUMANS; MALE; MANOMETRY; MIDDLE AGED; NIFEDIPINE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECTUM;

EID: 0030033084     PISSN: 00123706     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02068078     Document Type: Article

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