Rectal sensorimotor characteristics in female patients with idiopathic constipation with or without paradoxical sphincter contraction

Neurogastroenterology and Motility

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 187-193

  Sloots, C E J ^b   Felt Bersma, R J F ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Barostat; Constipation; Paradoxical sphincter contraction; Rectal motility; Visceral sensitivity

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL DISTENSION; ADULT; AGED; ANUS SPHINCTER; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPLIANCE (PHYSICAL); CONSTIPATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERSENSITIVITY; HYPOALGESIA; IDIOPATHIC DISEASE; INTESTINE COMPLIANCE; INTESTINE DISTENSION; INTESTINE INNERVATION; INTESTINE PRESSURE; PERIODICITY; POSTPRANDIAL STATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM; SCORING SYSTEM; SENSATION; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SMOOTH MUSCLE CONTRACTION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ADULT; AGED; ANAL CANAL; COMPLIANCE; CONSTIPATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MANOMETRY; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; POSTPRANDIAL PERIOD; RECTUM; SENSATION;

EID: 0038746985     PISSN: 13501925     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2982.2003.00392.x     Document Type: Article

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