Rectal pacing in patients with constipation due to rectal inertia: Technique and results

International Journal of Colorectal Disease

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 100-104

  Shafik, A ^a   El Sibai, O ^b   Shafik, A A ^c  

^a CAIRO UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^b MENOUFIA UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^c CAIRO UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Defecation; Electrode; Motility; Pacemaker; Pacesetter potentials; Rectosigmoid junction; Slow waves

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANUS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONSTIPATION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFECATION; ELECTRODE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMPLANT; INGUINAL REGION; MALE; MYOELECTRICITY; PACEMAKER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECORDING; RECTUM DISEASE; RECTUM INERTIA; RECTUM MOTILITY; RECTUM MUCOSA; SIGMOID; SUBMUCOSA; TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ADULT; CONSTIPATION; DEFECATION; ELECTRIC STIMULATION THERAPY; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL MOTILITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RECTUM;

EID: 0033826454     PISSN: 01791958     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s003840050241     Document Type: Article

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