Asymmetric sphincter innervation is associated with fecal incontinence after anal sphincter trauma during childbirth

Neurourology and Urodynamics

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 134-139

  Wietek, Beate M ^a   Hinninghofen, Heidemarie ^a   Jehle, Ekkehard C ^b   Enck, Paul ^a   Franz, Heiko B ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b Krankenhaus St Elisabeth   (Germany)

^c City Hospital   (Germany)

Author keywords

Anal incontinence; Asymmetry; Birth trauma; Innervation; Perineal laceration; Vaginal delivery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANORECTAL PRESSURE; ANUS SPHINCTER; ARTICLE; BIRTH INJURY; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FECES INCONTINENCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INNERVATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NULLIPARA; PERINEUM INJURY; PREVALENCE; PRIMIPARA; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VAGINAL DELIVERY;

ADULT; ANAL CANAL; COHORT STUDIES; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EPISIOTOMY; FECAL INCONTINENCE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LACERATIONS; MANOMETRY; OBSTETRIC LABOR COMPLICATIONS; PARTURITION; PELVIC FLOOR; PERINEUM; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREGNANCY; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; URINARY INCONTINENCE;

EID: 33846583292     PISSN: 07332467     EISSN: 15206777     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nau.20307     Document Type: Article

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