Subtypes of constipation: Sorting out the confusion

Reviews in Gastroenterological Disorders

Volumn 4, Issue SUPPL. 2, 2004, Pages

  Prather, Charlene M ^a  

^a SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Dyssynergic defecation; Functional constipation; Irritable bowel syndrome; Slow transit constipation

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ANORECTAL PRESSURE; ARTICLE; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; CONSTIPATION; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; HUMAN; INTESTINE TRANSIT TIME; IRRITABLE COLON; PELVIC DISEASE; PELVIS FLOOR; PHYSICAL PERFORMANCE; QUALITY OF LIFE; SCORING SYSTEM; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TREATMENT PLANNING; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ALGORITHMS; CHRONIC DISEASE; CONSTIPATION; GASTROINTESTINAL TRANSIT; HUMANS; MANOMETRY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 3042523545     PISSN: 1533001X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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