Comparison of rectoanal axial forces in health and functional defecatory disorders

American Journal of Physiology - Gastrointestinal and Liver Physiology

Volumn 290, Issue 6, 2006, Pages

  Bharucha, Adil E ^a,b   Croak, Andrew J ^a   Gebhart, John B ^a   Berglund, Lawrence J ^a   Seide, Barbara M ^a   Zinsmeister, Alan R ^a   An, Kai Nan ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^b Clinical Enteric Neuroscience Translational and Epidemiological Research Mayo Clinic   (United States)

Author keywords

Anal pressures; Axial force; Continence; Defecation; Manometry

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANORECTAL PRESSURE; ANUS SPHINCTER; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTINENCE; DEFECATION DISORDER; FECES ANALYSIS; FECES INCONTINENCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MANOMETRY; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; PELVIS FLOOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VALSALVA MANEUVER;

ADULT; ANAL CANAL; CONSTIPATION; DEFECATION; FECAL INCONTINENCE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MANOMETRY; PRESSURE; RECTUM; STRESS, MECHANICAL;

EID: 33646869922     PISSN: 01931857     EISSN: 15221547     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpgi.00487.2005     Document Type: Article

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