The hypertonic rectosigmoid junction: Description of a new clinicopathologic entity causing constipation

Surgical Laparoscopy, Endoscopy and Percutaneous Techniques

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 116-120

  Shafik, Ahmed ^a,b  

^a CAIRO UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^b NONE   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Achalasia; Constipation; Rectum; Sigmoid colon; Sigmoidomyotomy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLORECTAL SURGERY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; MYOTOMY; NEUROMUSCULAR DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM; RECTUM DISEASE; SIGMOID; SPHINCTER;

ADULT; ANAL CANAL; BARIUM SULFATE; COLON, SIGMOID; COLONOSCOPY; CONSTIPATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; PROCTOSCOPY; RECTUM; REFLEX;

EID: 0031001290     PISSN: 10517200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00019509-199704000-00009     Document Type: Article

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