Diagnosis and treatment of constipation in children

Current Opinion in Pediatrics

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 512-515

  Staiano, Annamaria ^a   Tozzi, Arturo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANORECTAL MALFORMATION; CHILD; CHILD REARING; CHRONIC DISEASE; CONSTIPATION; DEFECATION; FECES INCONTINENCE; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; GENE MUTATION; HIRSCHSPRUNG DISEASE; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC DISEASE; INFANT; INTESTINAL NEURONAL DYSPLASIA; INTESTINE TRANSIT TIME; NEUROMUSCULAR DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY; URINE INCONTINENCE;

CHILD; CHRONIC DISEASE; CONSTIPATION; FECAL INCONTINENCE; HIRSCHSPRUNG DISEASE; HUMANS; RECTUM;

EID: 0031669297     PISSN: 10408703     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00008480-199810000-00011     Document Type: Short Survey

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