Diagnostic testing in fecal incontinence

Current Gastroenterology Reports

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 406-413

  Kumar, Anjana ^a   Rao, Satish S C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA HOSPITALS AND CLINICS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GASTROINTESTINAL AGENT;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANORECTAL PRESSURE; ANUS SPHINCTER; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; DRUG USE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; FECES INCONTINENCE; HUMAN; LATENT PERIOD; MORPHOLOGY; MOTOR NERVE CONDUCTION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; PUDENDAL NERVE; QUALITY OF LIFE; REFLEX; REVIEW; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SEX DIFFERENCE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; MANOMETRY; MOTONEURON;

DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ENDOSONOGRAPHY; FECAL INCONTINENCE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MANOMETRY; MOTOR NEURONS;

EID: 1542496193     PISSN: 15228037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11894-003-0054-2     Document Type: Review

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