Anal sphincter complex: Reinterpreted morphology and its clinical relevance

Diseases of the Colon and Rectum

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 188-194

  Fritsch, Helga ^a   Brenner, Erich ^a   Lienemann, Andreas ^b   Ludwikowski, Barbara ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c Clinic of Pediatric Surgery   (Austria)

Author keywords

Anal sphincter innervation; External anal sphincter; Human pelvic sections; Internal anal sphincter

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ANUS SPHINCTER; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE ANATOMY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CROWN RUMP LENGTH; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FETUS; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NEWBORN; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PUDENDAL NERVE; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ADULT; ANAL CANAL; DISSECTION; FEMALE; FETUS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INFANT, NEWBORN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE;

EID: 0036174306     PISSN: 00123706     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10350-004-6144-x     Document Type: Article

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