Defining constipation in childhood and adolescence: From Rome, via Boston, to Paris and ...?

Journal of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 485-486

  Maffei, Helga Verena Leoni ^a   De Morais, Mauro Batista ^b  

^a SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONSENSUS; CONSTIPATION; DEFECATION; DEFECATION DISORDER; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FECES IMPACTION; FECES INCONTINENCE; HUMAN; LETTER; NOMENCLATURE; PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STANDARDIZATION; SYMPTOM; SYNDROME DELINEATION;

CHILD; CONSTIPATION; DEFECATION; HUMANS; SOCIETIES, MEDICAL; TERMINOLOGY;

EID: 26044457292     PISSN: 02772116     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005176-200510000-00021     Document Type: Letter

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