Advantages of a posterior fourchette incision in anal sphincter repair

Diseases of the Colon and Rectum

Volumn 44, Issue 11, 2001, Pages 1624-1629

  Tan, M ^a   O'Hanlon, M D ^a   Cassidy, M ^a   O'Connell, P R ^a  

^a MATER MISERICORDIAE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Anal sphincter; Anterior sphincter repair: obstetric injury; Continence; Wound

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANORECTAL PRESSURE; ANUS CONTINENCE; ANUS SPHINCTER; ANUS SPHINCTER DISORDER; ANUS SURGERY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; SURGICAL APPROACH; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASOUND; WOUND;

EID: 0035212428     PISSN: 00123706     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02234382     Document Type: Article

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