Relationship between symptoms and disordered continence mechanisms in women with idiopathic faecal incontinence

Gut

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 546-555

  Bharucha, A O ^a   Fletcher, J G ^a   Harper, C M ^a   Hough, D ^a   Daube, J R ^a   Stevens, C ^a   Seide, B ^a   Riederer, S J ^a   Zinsmeister, A R ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ANORECTAL PRESSURE; ANUS SPHINCTER; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; COMPLIANCE (PHYSICAL); CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFECATION; FECES INCONTINENCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MUSCLE ATROPHY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PELVIS FLOOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM; RISK FACTOR; SENSORY DYSFUNCTION; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

AGED; ANAL CANAL; COMPLIANCE; DEFECATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FECAL INCONTINENCE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MANOMETRY; MIDDLE AGED; PELVIC FLOOR; PRESSURE; RECTUM; RISK FACTORS; SENSATION; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 15444371016     PISSN: 00175749     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/gut.2004.047696     Document Type: Article

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