Study of the functional activity of the cecocolonic junction with identification of a "physiologic sphincter", "cecocolonic inhibitory reflex" and "colocecal excitatory reflex"

Surgical and Radiologic Anatomy

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 16-20

  Shafik, A ^a,b   Mostafa, R M ^c   Shafik, A A ^a   Ahmed, I ^a  

^a CAIRO UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^b Zagazig University ^*  (Egypt)

^c ZAGAZIG UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Cecal and colonic anatomy; Chyme; Colonic motility; Mass contraction

Indexed keywords

SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ADULT; ANESTHESIA; ARTICLE; ASCENDING COLON; BALLOON CATHETER; CECUM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLON CANCER; COLON DILATATION; COLON DISEASE; COLON MOTILITY; COLOSTOMY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEMICOLECTOMY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTESTINE DISTENSION; INTESTINE ENDOSCOPY; INTESTINE PRESSURE; INTESTINE RADIOGRAPHY; MALE; MANOMETRY; MORPHOMETRICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFLEX; SPHINCTER;

ADULT; CECUM; COLON; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL MOTILITY; HUMANS; MALE; MANOMETRY; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SMOOTH;

EID: 0038641299     PISSN: 09301038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00276-002-0089-3     Document Type: Article

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