Posterior colporrhaphy: Its effects on bowel and sexual function

BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology

Volumn 104, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 82-86

  Kahn, Margie A ^a   Stanton, Stuart L ^a  

^a ST GEORGE S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANATOMY; ARTICLE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GYNECOLOGIC SURGERY; HUMAN; INTESTINE FUNCTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEXUAL FUNCTION; SYMPTOM; VAGINA RECONSTRUCTION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CONSTIPATION; DEFECATION; FECAL INCONTINENCE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HERNIA; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PRESSURE; RECTAL DISEASES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; SUTURE TECHNIQUES; VAGINAL DISEASES;

EID: 0031025843     PISSN: 14700328     EISSN: 14710528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-0528.1997.tb10654.x     Document Type: Article

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