Do internal anal sphincter defects decrease the success rate of anal sphincter repair?

Techniques in Coloproctology

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 94-97

  Oberwalder, M ^a   Dinnewitzer, A ^a   Baig, M K ^a   Nogueras, J J ^a   Weiss, E G ^a   Efron, J ^a   Vernava III, A M ^a   Wexner, S D ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF COLORECTAL SURGERY   (United States)

Author keywords

External anal sphincter; Imbrication; Internal anal sphincter; Levatorplasty; Sphincter defect; Sphincter repair

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANUS SPHINCTER DISORDER; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FECES INCONTINENCE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; LATENT PERIOD; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NERVE ENDING; PUDENDAL NERVE; SPHINCTEROPLASTY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANAL CANAL; ANUS DISEASES; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NEURAL CONDUCTION; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPINAL NERVES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33745842223     PISSN: 11236337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10151-006-0259-0     Document Type: Article

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