One-Year Follow-Up Study on the Effects of Electrogalvanic Stimulation in Chronic Idiopathic Constipation with Pelvic Floor Dyssynergia

Diseases of the Colon and Rectum

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 346-353

  Chiarioni, Giuseppe ^a,c   Chistolini, Fabio ^b   Menegotti, Monica ^a   Salandini, Lara ^a   Vantini, Italo ^a   Morelli, Antonio ^b   Bassotti, Gabrio ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF VERONA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Constipation; Electrogalvanic stimulation; Pelvic floor dyssynergia

Indexed keywords

ANORECTAL PRESSURE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONSTIPATION; DEFECOGRAPHY; ELECTROGALVANIC STIMULATION; ELECTROSTIMULATION THERAPY; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTESTINE TRANSIT TIME; MEASUREMENT; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PELVIC DISEASE; PELVIS FLOOR DYSSYNERGIA;

ADULT; ANAL CANAL; ATAXIA; CATHARTICS; CHRONIC DISEASE; CONSTIPATION; DEFECATION; ELECTRIC STIMULATION THERAPY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MANOMETRY; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN; PELVIC FLOOR; RECTUM; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 1442299759     PISSN: 00123706     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10350-003-0047-1     Document Type: Article

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