Denervation of the neorectum as a potential cause of defecatory disorder following low anterior resection for rectal cancer

Diseases of the Colon and Rectum

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 210-217

  Koda, Keiji ^a,c   Saito, Norio ^b   Seike, Kazuhiro ^a   Shimizu, Kimio ^a   Kosugi, Chihiro ^a   Miyazaki, Masaru ^a  

^a Chiha University   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL CANCER CENTER HOSPITAL EAST   (Japan)

^c CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Defecatory function; Denervation; Low anterior resection; Motility disorder; Neorectum; Rectal cancer

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEFECATION DISORDER; DENERVATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFERIOR MESENTERIC ARTERY; INTESTINE CONTRACTION; INTESTINE PRESSURE; INTESTINE TRANSIT TIME; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; RECTUM CANCER; RECTUM MOTILITY; RECTUM RESECTION; SIGMOID;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COLON, SIGMOID; DEFECATION; DENERVATION; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL MOTILITY; GASTROINTESTINAL TRANSIT; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; RECTUM; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 17744363436     PISSN: 00123706     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10350-004-0814-6     Document Type: Article

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