Does the need to self-digitate or the presence of a large or nonemptying rectocoele on proctography influence the outcome of transanal rectocoele repair?

Colorectal Disease

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 169-172

  Stojkovic, S G ^a   Balfour, L ^a   Burke, D ^a   Finan, P J ^a   Sagar, P M ^a  

^a LEEDS GENERAL INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Rectocoele; Repair; Success; Surgical; Transanal

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONSTIPATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFECATION; DEFECATION DISORDER; DEFECOGRAPHY; DYSPAREUNIA; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HOSPITAL DEPARTMENT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL LITERATURE; PATIENT SELECTION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTOCELE; RECTUM PROLAPSE; RECTUM SURGERY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SYMPTOM; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; ANAL CANAL; CONSTIPATION; DEFECOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RECTOCELE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0037361218     PISSN: 14628910     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1463-1318.2003.00427.x     Document Type: Article

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