Pain is temporally related to eating but not to defaecation in the irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). Patients' description of diarrhoea, constipation and symptom variation during a prospective 6-week study

European Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 415-421

  Ragnarsson, Gudmundur ^a,b   Bodemar, Göran ^a  

^a LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b Medicinkliniken   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Defaecation; Eating; Irritable bowel syndrome; Pain

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONSTIPATION; DEFECATION; DIAGNOSIS; DIARRHEA; EATING; FECES; FEMALE; HUMAN; IRRITABLE COLON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PATIENT; PATIENT MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYMPTOM;

EID: 0031777140     PISSN: 0954691X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00042737-199805000-00011     Document Type: Article

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