Symptoms and physiology in severe chronic constipation

American Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 94, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 131-138

  Mertz, H ^a,b   Naliboff, B ^a,b   Mayer, E A ^a,b  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANORECTAL MALFORMATION; ARTICLE; CONSTIPATION; ELECTROMYOGRAM; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; INTESTINE TRANSIT TIME; IRRITABLE COLON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION;

ANAL CANAL; CHRONIC DISEASE; COLON; COLONIC DISEASES, FUNCTIONAL; CONSTIPATION; DEFECATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL TRANSIT; HUMANS; MALE; MANOMETRY; MIDDLE AGED; PELVIC FLOOR; RECTUM;

EID: 0032948268     PISSN: 00029270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1572-0241.1999.00783.x     Document Type: Article

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