The rectum: A window to irritable bowel syndrome?

Digestion

Volumn 65, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 238-249

  Coremans, G ^a   Azpiroz, F ^b   Collins, S ^c   Dapoigny, M ^d   Muller Lissner S A ^e   Pace, F ^f   Smout, A ^g   Stockbrugger R W ^h   Whorwell, P J ⁱ  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI VALL D HEBRON   (Spain)

^c Division of Gastroenterology   (Canada)

^d HÔTEL DIEU   (France)

^e MARTIN LUTHER KRANKENHAUS   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^g UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^h MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

ⁱ MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Barostat; Drug effects; Irritable bowel syndrome; Manometry; Rectal biopsies; Rectal motility; Rectal sensitivity; Rectal symptoms; Recto sigmoidoscopy

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; ANESTHETIC AGENT; ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; ATROPINE; DESIPRAMINE; FENTANYL; GRANISETRON; LIDOCAINE; NEOSTIGMINE; OCTREOTIDE; ONDANSETRON; SEROTONIN 3 ANTAGONIST;

ANORECTAL PRESSURE; ANXIETY; BELGIUM; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONSTIPATION; DIARRHEA; FUNCTION TEST; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; HUMAN; HYPERALGESIA; INTESTINE CONTRACTION; INTESTINE DISTENSION; INTESTINE MOTILITY; IRRITABLE COLON; MENTAL DISEASE; PAIN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM BIOPSY; RECTUM DISEASE; REFLEX; REVIEW; SMOOTH MUSCLE RELAXATION; SMOOTH MUSCLE TONE;

BIOPSY; COLONIC DISEASES, FUNCTIONAL; CONSTIPATION; DIARRHEA; GASTROINTESTINAL MOTILITY; HUMANS; MANOMETRY; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; RECTUM;

EID: 0036381335     PISSN: 00122823     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000063823     Document Type: Review

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