The utility of pudendal nerve terminal motor latencies in idiopathic incontinence

Diseases of the Colon and Rectum

Volumn 49, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 852-857

  Ricciardi, Rocco ^a,b   Mellgren, Anders F ^a   Madoff, Robert D ^a   Baxter, Nancy N ^a   Karulf, Richard E ^a   Parker, Susan C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Anal sphincter; Incontinence; Neuropathic; Pudendal latency; Pudendal nerve terminal motor latency

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANORECTAL PRESSURE; ANUS SPHINCTER; CALCULATION; COHORT ANALYSIS; DEFECOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; FECES INCONTINENCE; FEMALE; FISHER EXACT TEST; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC DISEASE; LABORATORY TEST; LATENT PERIOD; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NERVE ENDING; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PELVIS FLOOR; PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; PUDENDAL NERVE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RANK SUM TEST; RECTUM PROLAPSE; REVIEW; SCORING SYSTEM; STANDARD; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

AGED; ANAL CANAL; COHORT STUDIES; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FECAL INCONTINENCE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUMBOSACRAL PLEXUS; MALE; MANOMETRY; MIDDLE AGED; PRESSURE; REACTION TIME; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 33744942138     PISSN: 00123706     EISSN: 15300358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10350-006-0529-y     Document Type: Review

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