What's the value of diagnostic tools in defecation disorders?

Journal of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition

Volumn 41, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2005, Pages

  Nurko, Samuel ^a  

^a BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ANORECTAL PRESSURE; BARIUM ENEMA; CHILD; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONSTIPATION; DEFECATION DISORDER; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; FECES INCONTINENCE; HIRSCHSPRUNG DISEASE; HUMAN; MILK ALLERGY; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM BIOPSY;

CHILD; CHRONIC DISEASE; CONSTIPATION; DEFECATION; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FECAL INCONTINENCE; HIRSCHSPRUNG DISEASE; HUMANS;

EID: 24744470936     PISSN: 02772116     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.scs.0000180306.24923.a9     Document Type: Conference Paper

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