Parameters of the rectoanal inhibitory reflex in patients with idiopathic fecal incontinence and chronic constipation

Diseases of the Colon and Rectum

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 200-208

  Zbar, Andrew P ^a   Aslam, Mohammed ^a   Gold, Darren M ^a   Gatzen, Christopher ^a   Gosling, Amy ^b   Kmiot, Witold A ^a  

^a HAMMERSMITH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anal physiology; Fecal incontinence; Rectoanal excitatory reflex; Rectoanal inhibitory reflex

Indexed keywords

ANUS SPHINCTER; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONSTIPATION; DEFECATION; FECES INCONTINENCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTESTINE INNERVATION; INTESTINE PRESSURE; MALE; RECTUM ANASTOMOSIS;

ADULT; AGED; ANAL CANAL; CHRONIC DISEASE; CONSTIPATION; FECAL INCONTINENCE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MANOMETRY; MIDDLE AGED; RECTUM; REFLEX;

EID: 0031913822     PISSN: 00123706     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02238249     Document Type: Article

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