Breath methane associated with slow colonic transit time in children with chronic constipation

Journal of Clinical Gastroenterology

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 512-515

  Soares, Ana Cristina Fontenele ^a   Lederman, Henrique Manoel ^a   Fagundes Neto, Ulysses ^a   De Morais, Mauro Batista ^a,b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b NONE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Children; Colonic transit time; Constipation; Methane

Indexed keywords

METHANE;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BREATH ANALYSIS; CHILD; CHRONIC DISEASE; COLON; CONSTIPATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTESTINE TRANSIT TIME; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM; SIGMOID;

ADOLESCENT; BREATH TESTS; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHRONIC DISEASE; CONSTIPATION; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL TRANSIT; HUMANS; MALE; METHANE; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 20944435031     PISSN: 01920790     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.mcg.0000165665.94777.bd     Document Type: Article

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