Measuring colonic transit time in chronic idiopathic constipation

Revista Espanola de Enfermedades Digestivas

Volumn 95, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 186-190

  Husni Hag Ali, Rashad ^a   Gomez Rodriguez B J ^a   Mendoza Olivares, F J ^a   Garcia Montes J Ma ^a   Venegas, S Sánchez Gey ^a   Herrerias Gutierrez J M ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO VIRGEN MACARENA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Anorectal manometry; Chronic idiopathic constipation; Colonic transit; Radio opaque markers

Indexed keywords

LAXATIVE; MARKER;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ANORECTAL PRESSURE; ARTICLE; AVERAGING; CHRONIC DISEASE; CONSTIPATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DEFECATION; DEMOGRAPHY; DIETARY FIBER; DIETARY INTAKE; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC DISEASE; INDIVIDUALIZATION; INTESTINE TRANSIT TIME; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SEX RATIO; SIGMOID; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STOMACH EMPTYING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHRONIC DISEASE; COLON; CONSTIPATION; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL TRANSIT; HUMANS; MALE; MANOMETRY; MIDDLE AGED; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0038070243     PISSN: 11300108     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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