Are obstetric risk factors and bowel symptoms associated with defaecographic and manometric abnormalities in women awaiting hysterectomy?

Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 274-278

  Arumugam, P J ^a,b   Patel, B ^a   Rieck, G ^a   Hutchings, H ^a   Emery, S ^a   Carr, N D ^a   Beynon, J ^a  

^a SINGLETON HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL CORNWALL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL HYSTERECTOMY; ADULT; ANORECTAL PRESSURE; ANUS SPHINCTER; ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFECOGRAPHY; DELIVERY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTESTINE FUNCTION; INTUSSUSCEPTION; LABOR; PARITY; PELVIS FLOOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RECTOCELE; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; ULTRASOUND;

ADULT; AGED; ANAL CANAL; DEFECATION; DELIVERY, OBSTETRIC; ENGLAND; FECAL INCONTINENCE; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYSTERECTOMY; INTUSSUSCEPTION; MANOMETRY; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRES; RECTOCELE; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 1842866902     PISSN: 01443615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01443610410001660832     Document Type: Article

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