Etiology of the resting myoelectric activity of the levator ani muscle: Physioanatomic study with a new theory

World Journal of Surgery

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 309-314

  Shafik, Ahmed ^a,b   Doss, Sameh ^a   Asaad, Soheir ^a  

^a CAIRO UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^b NONE   (Egypt)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PRESSURE; ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY POSITION; CADAVER; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; CHOLECYSTITIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ELECTROMYOGRAM; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LEVATOR ANI MUSCLE; MALE; MUSCLE FUNCTION; MUSCLE TONE; MYOELECTRICITY; PELVIS FLOOR; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SMOOTH MUSCLE; SURGICAL ANATOMY; ABDOMEN; ADOLESCENT; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; GASTROINTESTINAL RADIOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ABDOMEN; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHOLECYSTECTOMY, LAPAROSCOPIC; CHOLECYSTITIS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PELVIC FLOOR; PNEUMOPERITONEUM, ARTIFICIAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 0037968515     PISSN: 03642313     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00268-002-6584-1     Document Type: Article

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