New trends in the surgical treatment of outlet obstruction: Clinical and functional results of two novel transanal stapled techniques from a randomised controlled trial

International Journal of Colorectal Disease

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 359-369

  Boccasanta, Paolo ^a   Venturi, Marco ^a   Salamina, Giovanni ^a   Cesana, Bruno Mario ^a   Bernasconi, Francesco ^b   Roviaro, Giancarlo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b UOC Anestesia e Rianimazione   (Italy)

Author keywords

Descending perineum; Intussusception; Outlet obstruction; Rectocele; Trans anal stapled surgery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANORECTAL PRESSURE; ANUS CONTINENCE; ANUS SPHINCTER; ARTICLE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLONOSCOPY; CONSTIPATION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFECATION DISORDER; DEFECOGRAPHY; DIET THERAPY; DYSPAREUNIA; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FECES INCONTINENCE; FEMALE; FLATULENCE; FOLLOW UP; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; INTESTINE STENOSIS; LEVATOR ANI MUSCLE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NOCICEPTION; OPERATION DURATION; PAIN THRESHOLD; PERINEUM; PLASTIC SURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RECTOCELE; RECTUM PROLAPSE; RECTUM RESECTION; SCORING SYSTEM; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURGICAL STAPLING; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TRANSRECTAL ULTRASONOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URINE RETENTION; WORK CAPACITY; WOUND HEALING IMPAIRMENT;

ANAL CANAL; CONSTIPATION; DEFECOGRAPHY; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM SURGICAL PROCEDURES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTESTINAL OBSTRUCTION; INTUSSUSCEPTION; MANOMETRY; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; RECTAL DISEASES; RECTAL PROLAPSE; RECTOCELE; RECTUM; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 3042726673     PISSN: 01791958     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00384-003-0572-2     Document Type: Article

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