Dynamic anal endosonography may challenge defecography for assessing dynamic anorectal disorders: Results of a prospective pilot study

Endoscopy

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 300-305

  Barthet, M ^a,b   Portier, F ^b   Heyries, L ^b   Orsoni, P ^b   Bouvier, M ^b   Houtin, D ^b   Barriere, N ^b   Mambrini, P ^b   Salducci, J ^b   Grimaud, J C ^b  

^a INSERM   (France)

^b HÔPITAL NORD   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

WATER;

ADULT; AGED; ANORECTAL DISEASE; ANUS DISEASE; ANUS SPHINCTER; ARTICLE; BLADDER DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFECOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; PERINEUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RECTOCELE; RECTUM PROLAPSE; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE;

ADULT; AGED; ANUS DISEASES; DEFECATION; DEFECOGRAPHY; ENDOSONOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PILOT PROJECTS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECTAL DISEASES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0034103332     PISSN: 0013726X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2000-7385     Document Type: Article

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