Female anal sphincter: Age-related differences in asymptomatic volunteers with high-frequency endoanal US

Radiology

Volumn 224, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 417-423

  Frudinger, Andrea ^a   Halligan, Steve ^a   Bartram, Clive I ^a   Price, Ashley B ^a   Kamm, Michael A ^a   Winter, Raimund ^a  

^a ST MARK S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aging; Anus, abnormalities; Anus, US

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ANUS SPHINCTER; ARTICLE; ATROPHY; BODY MASS; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOANAL ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORPHOLOGY; NULLIPARA; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0036315307     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.2242010985     Document Type: Article

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