Prospective comparison of short- and long-term effects of pelvic floor exercise/biofeedback training in patients with fecal incontinence after surgery plus irradiation versus surgery alone for colorectal cancer: Clinical, functional and endoscopic/endosonographic findings

Scandinavian Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 40, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 1168-1175

  Allgayer, Hubert ^a,b   Dietrich, Christoph F ^a   Rohde, Wolfgang ^a   Koch, Günther F ^a   Tuschhoff, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b LVA Baden Württemberg ^*  (Germany)

Author keywords

Anal endosonography; Biofeedback training; Colorectal carcinoma; Fecal incontinence; Irradiation; Pelvic floor exercise; Rectal manometry

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANUS SPHINCTER; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION FUNCTION; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; EXERCISE; FECES INCONTINENCE; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; IRRADIATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MANOMETRY; NOCICEPTION; PELVIS FLOOR; PELVIS FLOOR EXERCISE; PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; SENSATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANAL CANAL; BIOFEEDBACK (PSYCHOLOGY); COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM SURGICAL PROCEDURES; ENDOSCOPY, GASTROINTESTINAL; ENDOSONOGRAPHY; EXERCISE THERAPY; FECAL INCONTINENCE; FEMALE; HEMIBODY IRRADIATION; HUMANS; MALE; MANOMETRY; MIDDLE AGED; PELVIC FLOOR; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 27144445299     PISSN: 00365521     EISSN: 15027708     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00365520510023477     Document Type: Article

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