Anorectal manometry: Are fatigue rate and fatigue rate index of any clinical importance?

Techniques in Coloproctology

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 225-228

  Bilali, S ^a   Pfeifer, J ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

Constipation; Fatigue rate; Fatigue rate index; Fecal incontinence

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANORECTAL PRESSURE; ANUS SPHINCTER; ARTICLE; CONSTIPATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FATIGUE; FECES INCONTINENCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ANAL CANAL; COHORT STUDIES; CONSTIPATION; DEFECOGRAPHY; FECAL INCONTINENCE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MANOMETRY; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FATIGUE; PROBABILITY; PROGNOSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SEX DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 28844476789     PISSN: 11236337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10151-005-0232-3     Document Type: Article

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