Transanal approach to rectocele repair may compromise anal sphincter pressures

Diseases of the Colon and Rectum

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 354-358

  Ho, Yik Hong ^a   Ang, Maureen ^a   Nyam, Denis ^a   Tan, Margaret ^a   Seow Choen, Francis ^a  

^a SINGAPORE GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Anismus; Defecography; Physiology; Rectocele

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANORECTAL PRESSURE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONSTIPATION; DEFECATION; DEFECOGRAPHY; FECES INCONTINENCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; RECTOCELE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

ANAL CANAL; CONSTIPATION; DEFECATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MANOMETRY; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PRESSURE; RECTAL PROLAPSE;

EID: 0031889135     PISSN: 00123706     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02237491     Document Type: Article

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