The role of rectocele repair in targeted patients with obstructed defaecation

Colorectal Disease

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 159-163

  Hirst, Graham R ^a   Hughes, R J ^a   Morgan, A R ^a   Carr, N D ^a   Patel, B ^a   Beynon, J ^a  

^a SINGLETON HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Obstructed defaecation; Rectocele repair; Targeted patients

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; COLOSTOMY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFECATION DISORDER; DEFECOGRAPHY; DEMOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTESTINE FUNCTION; INTESTINE INTUSSUSCEPTION; INTESTINE TRANSIT TIME; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL RECORD; PATIENT COUNSELING; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PATIENT SELECTION; PELVIS SURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTOCELE; RECTUM SURGERY; REVIEW; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SYMPTOM; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CONSTIPATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTESTINAL OBSTRUCTION; MIDDLE AGED; RECTOCELE; RECURRENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGICAL MESH; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 14844351262     PISSN: 14628910     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1463-1318.2004.00768.x     Document Type: Review

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