Review article: Recent trends in diagnosis and treatment of faecal incontinence

Alimentary Pharmacology and Therapeutics

Volumn 19, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 829-840

  Tuteja, A K ^a   Rao, S S C ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATROPINE PLUS DIPHENOXYLATE; CODEINE; COLESTIPOL; COLESTYRAMINE; ESTROGEN; LOPERAMIDE; PHENYLEPHRINE; VALPROIC ACID;

ANORECTAL DISEASE; ANORECTAL PRESSURE; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMORBIDITY; CONDITIONING; COORDINATION; COUNSELING; DEFECATION; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DIET THERAPY; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; ELECTROSTIMULATION; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; FECES; FECES INCONTINENCE; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; HUMAN; HYGIENE; LATENT PERIOD; LIFESTYLE; MUSCLE TRANSPOSITION; NERVE STIMULATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUDENDAL NERVE; QUALITY OF LIFE; RECTUM ANTERIOR RESECTION; REVIEW; SELF ESTEEM; SKIN CARE; SPHINCTEROPLASTY; SYMPTOM;

BIOFEEDBACK (PSYCHOLOGY); ELECTRIC STIMULATION THERAPY; ENDOSONOGRAPHY; FECAL INCONTINENCE; GASTROINTESTINAL AGENTS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MANOMETRY; PHYSICAL THERAPY MODALITIES; REACTION TIME; RECTUM;

EID: 2042505695     PISSN: 02692813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2036.2004.01931.x     Document Type: Review

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