Audit of constipation in a gastroenterology referral center

Digestive Diseases and Sciences

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 317-320

  Iantorno, Guido ^a   Cinquetti, Monica ^a   Mazzocchi, Alessandro ^b   Morelli, Antonio ^b   Bassotti, Gabrio ^b  

^a HOSPITAL DE GASTROENTEROLOGÍA DR CARLOS BONORINO UDAONDO   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Constipation; Pelvic floor dysfunction; Slow transit constipation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANUS; ARTICLE; CONSTIPATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FEMALE; GASTROENTEROLOGY; HUMAN; INTESTINE TRANSIT TIME; IRRITABLE COLON; LITERATURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT REFERRAL; PELVIS FLOOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARGENTINA; BIOFEEDBACK (PSYCHOLOGY); CONSTIPATION; FEMALE; GASTROENTEROLOGY; GASTROINTESTINAL TRANSIT; HUMANS; IRRITABLE BOWEL SYNDROME; MALE; MEDICAL AUDIT; MIDDLE AGED; PELVIC FLOOR; PREVALENCE; REFERRAL AND CONSULTATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 33846813857     PISSN: 01632116     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10620-006-9486-5     Document Type: Article

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