Twenty-four hour recordings of colonic motility in patients with diverticular disease: Evidence for abnormal motility and propulsive activity

Diseases of the Colon and Rectum

Volumn 44, Issue 12, 2001, Pages 1814-1820

  Bassotti, Gabrio ^c   Battaglia, Edda ^c   Spinozzi, Fabrizio ^c   Pelli, Maria A ^a   Tonini, Marcello ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^c Clinica di Gastroenterologia Ed Epatologia   (Italy)

Author keywords

Colon; Diverticular disease; Manometry; Motility

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLON DIVERTICULOSIS; COLON MOTILITY; COLONOSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DESCENDING COLON; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTESTINE CONTRACTION; MALE; MANOMETRY; MEAL; SIGMOID; TRANSVERSE COLON;

EID: 0035668069     PISSN: 00123706     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02234460     Document Type: Article

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