How could management of rectoceles be optimized?

ANZ Journal of Surgery

Volumn 72, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 896-901

  Goh, Judith T W ^a   Tjandra, Joe J ^a   Carey, Marcus P ^a  

^a ROYAL MELBOURNE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLORECTAL SURGERY; GYNECOLOGY; HUMAN; NULLIPARA; PARITY; PREVALENCE; RECTOCELE; REVIEW; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; VAGINA;

CONSTIPATION; DYSPAREUNIA; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL TRANSIT; HUMANS; RECTOCELE; SURGICAL MESH; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0036917386     PISSN: 14451433     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1445-2197.2002.t01-1-02577.x     Document Type: Review

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