Can digital examination substitute anorectal manometry for the evaluation of anal canal pressures?;?Puede el tacto rectal sustituir a la manometría rectoanal en la valoración de las presiones del conducto anal?

Revista Espanola de Enfermedades Digestivas

Volumn 90, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 85-93

  Buch, E ^a,b   Alos R ^a   Solana, A ^a   Roig, J V ^a   Fernandez C ^a   Diaz F ^a  

^a HOSPITAL DE SAGUNTO   (Spain)

^b NONE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Anal incontinence; Anal manometry; Digital examination

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANAL CANAL; ARTICLE; CHILD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MANOMETRY; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PALPATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESSURE; RECTUM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANAL CANAL; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MANOMETRY; MIDDLE AGED; PALPATION; PRESSURE; RECTUM;

EID: 0031993662     PISSN: 11300108     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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