Additional faecal reservoirs of hidden constipation: A link between functional and organic bowel disease

Danish Medical Bulletin

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 422-425

  Raahave, Dennis ^a   Loud, Franck B ^a  

^a Elsinore Hospital   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ABDOMINAL PRESSURE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BARIUM ENEMA; BLOATING; CLINICAL FEATURE; COLON DISEASE; COLON DIVERTICULOSIS; COLON POLYP; COLON TUMOR; CONSTIPATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DEFECATION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HEMORRHOID; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METEORISM; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CONSTIPATION; DEFECATION; FECES; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL TRANSIT; HUMANS; INTESTINAL DISEASES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 27244432250     PISSN: 16039629     EISSN: 16039629     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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