Colonic motility in man: Features in normal subjects and in patients with chronic idiopathic constipation

American Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 94, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 1760-1770

  Bassotti, Gabrio ^a,c   Iantorno, Guido ^a,b   Fiorella, Serafina ^a   Bustos Fernandez, Luis ^b   Bilder, Claudio R ^b  

^a Clinica di Gastroenterologia ed Epatologia   (Italy)

^b Hospital Municipal   (Argentina)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANORECTAL PRESSURE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLON MOTILITY; CONSTIPATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFECATION; DEFECOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HIGH FIBER DIET; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC DISEASE; MALE; MANOMETRY; MEAL; MENSTRUATION; MYOELECTRICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SLEEP;

CHRONIC DISEASE; COLON; CONSTIPATION; GASTROINTESTINAL MOTILITY; HUMANS;

EID: 0032976791     PISSN: 00029270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1572-0241.1999.01203.x     Document Type: Review

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