Clinical response to dietary fiber treatment of chronic constipation

American Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 92, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 95-98

  Voderholzer, Winfried A ^a   Schatke, Winfried ^b   Mühldorfer, Birgit E ^b   Klauser, Andreas G ^b   Birkner, Berndt ^b   Müller Lissner, Stefan A ^b  

^a LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ISPAGULA;

ADULT; AGED; ANORECTAL PRESSURE; ARTICLE; CONSTIPATION; DEFECOGRAPHY; DIETARY FIBER; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL TRANSIT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MANOMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTOSCOPY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHRONIC DISEASE; CONSTIPATION; DIETARY FIBER; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL TRANSIT; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0031022542     PISSN: 00029270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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