Colonic pacing in patients with constipation due to colonic inertia

Medical Science Monitor

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2003, Pages

  Shafik, Ahmed ^a,c   Shafik, Ali A ^a   El Sibai, Olfat ^b   Ahmed, Ismail ^a  

^a CAIRO UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^b MENOUFIA UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^c NONE   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Action potentials; Motility; Pacemaker; Pacesetter potentials; Slow waves

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL; ADULT; ARTICLE; CECUM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLON INERTIA; COLON MOTILITY; COLONIC PACING; CONSTIPATION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFECATION; ELECTRIC ACTIVITY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NERVE CONDUCTION; PACEMAKER; PACESETTER POTENTIAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ADULT; COLON; CONSTIPATION; ELECTRIC STIMULATION THERAPY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL MOTILITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 0038509863     PISSN: 12341010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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