Posterior pelvic floor compartment disorders

Best Practice and Research: Clinical Obstetrics and Gynaecology

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 941-958

  Davis, Kathy ^a   Kumar, Devinder ^a  

^a ST GEORGE'S UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anismus; Constipation; Defecatory dysfunction; Enterocele; Faecal incontinence; Obstructed defecation; Posterior pelvic floor; Prolapse; Rectocele

Indexed keywords

ANTIDIARRHEAL AGENT; BULKING AGENT; ENEMA; LAXATIVE; LOPERAMIDE;

ANORECTAL DISEASE; BLADDER FUNCTION; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CONSTIPATION; DEFECATION; DEFECATION DISORDER; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIET THERAPY; DISEASE EXACERBATION; FECES INCONTINENCE; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; HUMAN; INTESTINE ABSORPTION; INTESTINE FUNCTION; INTESTINE TRANSIT TIME; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PELVIC ORGAN PROLAPSE; PELVIS FLOOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; REVIEW; SEXUAL FUNCTION; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

ANUS DISEASES; CONSTIPATION; DEFECATION; FECAL INCONTINENCE; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL MOTILITY; HUMANS; INTESTINAL DISEASES; PELVIC FLOOR; QUALITY OF LIFE; RECTAL DISEASES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UTERINE PROLAPSE;

EID: 29544435004     PISSN: 15216934     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bpobgyn.2005.08.010     Document Type: Review

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