Virtual reality: New method of teaching anorectal and pelvic floor anatomy

Diseases of the Colon and Rectum

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 349-352

  Dobson, Howard D ^a   Pearl, Russell K ^a,c   Orsay, Charles P ^a   Rasmussen, Mary ^a   Evenhouse, Ray ^a   Ai, Zhuming ^a   Blew, Gregory ^a   Dech, Fred ^b   Edison, Marcia I ^a   Silverstein, Jonathan C ^b   Abcarian, Herand ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^c Jr Hospital of Cook County   (United States)

Author keywords

Anatomy; Pathology; Pelvic floor; Surgery; Teaching; Virtual reality

Indexed keywords

ANATOMY; ANUS SPHINCTER; ARTICLE; CLINICAL EDUCATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER MODEL; MEDICAL EDUCATION; PELVIS FLOOR; SCORING SYSTEM; TEACHING; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TISSUE DEGENERATION; TRAINING; VIRTUAL REALITY;

ANAL CANAL; COLORECTAL SURGERY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY; ENDOSCOPY; HUMANS; INTERNSHIP AND RESIDENCY; MODELS, ANATOMIC; PATHOLOGY; PELVIC FLOOR; RECTUM; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 0037340311     PISSN: 00123706     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10350-004-6554-9     Document Type: Article

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