Artificial anal sphincter: Complications and functional results of a large personal series

Diseases of the Colon and Rectum

Volumn 45, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 1154-1163

  Devesa, Jose M ^a   Rey, Antonio ^a   Hervas, Pedro L ^a   Halawa, Kamal S ^a   Larrañaga, Itziar ^a   Svidler, Laura ^a   Abraira, Victor ^a   Muriel, Alfonso ^a  

^a HOSPITAL RAMÓN Y CAJAL   (Spain)

Author keywords

ABS; Acticon ; Anal incontinence; Artificial anal sphincter; Fecal incontinence

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANORECTAL PRESSURE; ANUS SPHINCTER; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL ANUS SPHINCTER; BLEEDING; COLOSTOMY; DEVICE; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; FECES IMPACTION; FECES INCONTINENCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMPLANT; INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MANOMETRY; MORBIDITY; PERFORATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; QUALITY OF LIFE; RECTOCELE; RECTUM PERFORATION; RISK FACTOR; SCORING SYSTEM; SEPSIS; SKIN ULCER; SPHINCTEROPLASTY; STOMA; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; URETHRA PERFORATION; VAGINA INJURY; WOUND DEHISCENCE; WOUND INFECTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANAL CANAL; FECAL INCONTINENCE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MANOMETRY; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSTHESES AND IMPLANTS; PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; QUALITY OF LIFE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0036734291     PISSN: 00123706     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10350-004-6382-y     Document Type: Article

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