Pathophysiology and Role of Biofeedback Therapy in Solitary Rectal Ulcer Syndrome

American Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 101, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 613-618

  Rao, Satish S C ^a,b   Ozturk, Ramazan ^a   De Ocampo, Sherrie ^a   Stessman, Mary ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA HOSPITALS AND CLINICS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; LAXATIVE; STEROID; SUCRALFATE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANORECTAL PRESSURE; ANUS CONTINENCE; ARTICLE; BALLOON EXPULSION TEST; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEFECATION HABIT; DEFECOGRAPHY; EVALUATION; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FUNCTION TEST; HUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; RECTUM ULCER; SCORING SYSTEM; SIGMOIDOSCOPY; SOLITARY RECTAL ULCER SYNDROME; SYMPTOM; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULCEROGENESIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANAL CANAL; BIOFEEDBACK (PSYCHOLOGY); DEFECOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MANOMETRY; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECTAL DISEASES; RECTUM; SIGMOIDOSCOPY; SYNDROME; ULCER;

EID: 33644780108     PISSN: 00029270     EISSN: 15720241     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1572-0241.2006.00466.x     Document Type: Article

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