A prospective comparison between clinical outcome and open-configuration magnetic resonance defecography findings before and after surgery for symptomatic rectocele

Colorectal Disease

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 605-611

  Hubner M ^a   Hetzer, F ^a   Weishaupt, D ^a   Hahnloser, D ^a   Clavien, P A ^a   Demartines, Nicolas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Anterior levatorplasty; Magnetic resonance defecography; Quality of life; Rectocele

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEFECOGRAPHY; DYSPAREUNIA; ENTEROCELE; FECES INCONTINENCE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HYSTERECTOMY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LEVATOR ANI MUSCLE; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PELVIC ORGAN PROLAPSE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RECTOCELE; RECTUM SURGERY; SCORING SYSTEM; SURGICAL ANATOMY; SYMPTOM; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URINE INCONTINENCE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANAL CANAL; DEFECOGRAPHY; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM SURGICAL PROCEDURES; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUALITY OF LIFE; RECTOCELE;

EID: 33747075752     PISSN: 14628910     EISSN: 14631318     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1463-1318.2006.01026.x     Document Type: Article

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