Rectal intussusception: A study of rectal biomechanics and visceroperception

American Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 100, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 1578-1585

  Dvorkin, Lee S ^a   Gladman, Marc A ^a   Scott, S Mark ^a   Williams, Norman S ^a   Lunniss, Peter J ^a  

^a ROYAL LONDON HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ADULT; AGED; ANORECTAL PRESSURE; ARTICLE; BAROSTAT; BIOMECHANICS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; FIBROSIS; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; MALE; MORBIDITY; PERCEPTION; POSTPRANDIAL STATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTAL FIBROSIS; RECTAL WALL INFLAMMATION; RECTUM DISEASE; RECTUM PROLAPSE; SOLITARY RECTAL ULCER SYNDROME; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; VISCEROPERCEPTION;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ADULT; AGED; BALLOON DILATATION; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COMPLIANCE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTUSSUSCEPTION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN MEASUREMENT; POSTPRANDIAL PERIOD; PRESSURE; RECTAL DISEASES; RECTUM; SENSATION; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; SYNDROME; ULCER; VISCERA;

EID: 22744442229     PISSN: 00029270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1572-0241.2005.41114.x     Document Type: Article

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