Pan-enteric dysmotility, impaired quality of life and alexithymia in a large group of patients meeting ROMEII criteria for irritable bowel syndrome

World Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 9, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 2293-2299

  Portincasa, Piero ^a   Moschetta, Antonio ^a   Baldassare, Giuseppe ^b   Altomare, Donato F ^a   Palasciano, Giuseppe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARI MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Italy)

^b MIULLI GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL DISCOMFORT; ADULT; ALEXITHYMIA; APPETITE; ARTICLE; BREATH ANALYSIS; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DYSPEPSIA; ECHOGRAPHY; EMOTIONAL DISORDER; EPIGASTRIC PAIN; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GALLBLADDER; GALLBLADDER EMPTYING; GASTROINTESTINAL MOTILITY; HUMAN; INTESTINE TRANSIT TIME; IRRITABLE COLON; ITALY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEAL; MORBIDITY; NAUSEA; PATIENT MONITORING; POSTPRANDIAL STATE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SATIETY; STOMACH ANTRUM; STOMACH EMPTYING; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

EID: 0142244374     PISSN: 10079327     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3748/wjg.v9.i10.2293     Document Type: Article

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