Which bowel symptoms are most strongly associated with a true rectocele?

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology

Volumn 45, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 505-508

  Dietz, Hans Peter ^a   Korda, Andrew ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b ROYAL PRINCE ALFRED HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Defecation disorders; Prolapse; Rectocele; Translabial ultrasound; Transperineal ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CONSTIPATION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEFECATION DISORDER; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; ECHOGRAPHY; FECES INCONTINENCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTESTINAL DYSMOTILITY; INTESTINE FUNCTION; INTESTINE FUNCTION DISORDER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MUSCLE STRAIN; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PAINFUL DEFECATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RECTOCELE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SYMPTOM; ADOLESCENT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEFECATION; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; GASTROINTESTINAL MOTILITY; HOSPITALIZATION; INCIDENCE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROBABILITY; PROGNOSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; URODYNAMICS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COHORT STUDIES; CONSTIPATION; DEFECATION; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL MOTILITY; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INCIDENCE; MIDDLE AGED; PROBABILITY; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECTOCELE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; URODYNAMICS;

EID: 33744973318     PISSN: 00048666     EISSN: 1479828X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1479-828X.2005.00486.x     Document Type: Article

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