Associations between hemorrhoids and other diagnoses

Diseases of the Colon and Rectum

Volumn 41, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 1534-1541

  Delcò, Fabiola ^a   Sonnenberg, Amnon ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^b VA Medical Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Anal sphincter; Case control study; Hemorrhoids epidemiology; Hemorrhoids pathophysiology

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANORECTAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; COMORBIDITY; CONSTIPATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; FEMALE; HEMORRHOID; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; SPINAL CORD INJURY;

EID: 0031703675     PISSN: 00123706     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/bf02237302     Document Type: Article

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