Constipation: Common-sense care of the older patient

Geriatrics

Volumn 51, Issue 12, 1996, Pages 28-36

  Abyad, Abdul ^a   Mourad, Fadi ^b  

^a Ain and Zein Hospital   (Lebanon)

^b AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT   (Lebanon)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; ANALGESIC AGENT; ANTACID AGENT; ANTHRAQUINONE DERIVATIVE; ANTIARRHYTHMIC AGENT; ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT; BISACODYL; CASTOR OIL; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; DOCUSATE SODIUM; FLEET ENEMA; ISPAGULA; LACTULOSE; LAXATIVE; MAGNESIUM CITRATE; MAGNESIUM HYDROXIDE; METAL; METHYLCELLULOSE; MINERAL OIL; NARCOTIC AGENT; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; PHENOLPHTHALEIN; POLYCARBOPHIL CALCIUM;

ANUS FISSURE; CANCER RISK; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; COLON MOTILITY; CONSTIPATION; DERMATITIS; DIET THERAPY; DIETARY FIBER; ELDERLY CARE; ELECTROLYTE DISTURBANCE; EXERCISE; HUMAN; INTESTINE VOLVULUS; LIFESTYLE; MEGACOLON; MELANOSIS; RECTUM ULCER; REVIEW;

AGED; CATHARTICS; COLONOSCOPY; CONSTIPATION; HUMANS;

EID: 0030320254     PISSN: 0016867X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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