Glyceryl Trinitrate for Chronic Anal Fissure-Healing or Headache?:Results of a Multicenter, Randomized, Placebo-Controlled, Double-Blind Trial

Diseases of the Colon and Rectum

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 179-181

  Madoff, Robert D ^a  

^a St Paul ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLYCERYL TRINITRATE; LAXATIVE; PLACEBO;

ADULT; ANUS DISEASE; ANUS FISSURE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG INDUCED DISEASE; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; ORTHOSTATIC HYPOTENSION; PAIN ASSESSMENT; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; ANAL CANAL; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CHRONIC DISEASE; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; FISSURE IN ANO; HEADACHE; HUMANS; HYPOTENSION, ORTHOSTATIC; LASER-DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; MALE; MANOMETRY; NITROGLYCERIN; OINTMENTS; PAIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASODILATOR AGENTS; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 18144447810     PISSN: 00123706     EISSN: 15300358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/bf02236978     Document Type: Article

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