Colonic Transit Time - What Is Normal?

Journal of Pediatric Surgery

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 166-169

  Wagener, S ^a,b   Shankar, K R ^a,b   Turnock, R R ^a,b   Lamont, G L ^a,b   Baillie, C T ^a,b   De Caluwe, A ^a   Martins, A ^a  

^a Alder Hey Children's Hospital ^*

^b ALDER HEY CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Childhood constipation; Colonic transit time

Indexed keywords

POLYETHYLENE; PORTEX; RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL AGENT;

ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ADOLESCENT; ASCENDING COLON; CHILD; COLON MOTILITY; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONSTIPATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DESCENDING COLON; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTESTINE TRANSIT TIME; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM; SIGMOID; TRANSVERSE COLON;

EID: 0742270686     PISSN: 00223468     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpedsurg.2003.10.002     Document Type: Conference Paper

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