Pharmacological treatment of anal fissure - A future role in primary care

Singapore Medical Journal

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 136-137

  Leong, A P K ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; BETHANECHOL; BOTULINUM TOXIN A; CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKING AGENT; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; DILTIAZEM; GLYCEROL NITRATE; NIFEDIPINE; SPASMOLYTIC AGENT;

ANORECTAL PRESSURE; ANUS DISEASE; ANUS FISSURE; ANUS SPHINCTER; BATH; BLOOD; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CREAM; DEFECATION; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DRUG FORMULATION; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; FECES ANALYSIS; FECES INCONTINENCE; FLUID INTAKE; HEADACHE; HEMORRHOID; HIGH FIBER DIET; HUMAN; INJECTION PAIN; INJECTION SITE; OINTMENT; PAIN; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; RECURRENT DISEASE; SEPSIS; SHORT SURVEY; SMOOTH MUSCLE RELAXATION; SPHINCTEROTOMY; SYMPTOM; THROMBOSIS; TOPICAL TREATMENT; TRANSDERMAL PATCH;

FISSURE IN ANO; HUMANS;

EID: 0037708868     PISSN: 00375675     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Short Survey

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