Electric activity of the colon in subjects with constipation due to total colonic inertia: An electrophysiologic study

Archives of Surgery

Volumn 138, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 1007-1011

  Shafik, Ahmed ^a,d   Shafik, Ali A ^a   El Sibai, Olfat ^b   Mostafa, Randa M ^c   Ramamoorthy, Sonia L ^d  

^a CAIRO UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^b MENOUFIA UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^c ZAGAZIG UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^d NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASCENDING COLON; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COILED BODY; COLON; CONSTIPATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DESCENDING COLON; ELECTRIC ACTIVITY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; HERNIOPLASTY; HUMAN; INTESTINE MOTILITY; MALE; MESENTERY CYST; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGMOID; TOTAL COLON RESECTION; TRANSVERSE COLON;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ADULT; CECUM; COLON; CONSTIPATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL MOTILITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 0042919164     PISSN: 00040010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archsurg.138.9.1007     Document Type: Article

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