Short-term effects of sacral nerve stimulation for idiopathic slow transit constipation

World Journal of Surgery

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 166-170

  Malouf, Andrew J ^a   Wiesel, Paul H ^a   Nicholls, Tanya ^a   Nicholls, R John ^a   Kamm, Michael A ^a  

^a ST MARK S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RADIOACTIVE MATERIAL;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLON RESECTION; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CONSTIPATION; DEFECATION; ELECTRODE; EQUIPMENT; FECES INCONTINENCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTESTINE TRANSIT TIME; NERVE STIMULATION; NEUROMODULATION; PELVIS FLOOR; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; SACRUM; SENSORY NERVE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; URINARY TRACT DISEASE; EVALUATION; INNERVATION; LARGE INTESTINE; LUMBOSACRAL PLEXUS; MIDDLE AGED; PILOT STUDY; TRANSCUTANEOUS NERVE STIMULATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; CONSTIPATION; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTESTINE, LARGE; LUMBOSACRAL PLEXUS; MIDDLE AGED; PILOT PROJECTS; TRANSCUTANEOUS ELECTRIC NERVE STIMULATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0036482635     PISSN: 03642313     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00268-001-0202-5     Document Type: Article

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