Multiple clinical presentations of anal ultra slow waves and high anal pressure: Megacolon, hemorrhoids and constipation

Tohoku Journal of Experimental Medicine

Volumn 211, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 127-132

  Yoshino, Hiroaki ^a   Kayaba, Hiroyuki ^a   Hebiguchi, Tatsuzo ^a   Morii, Mayako ^a   Hebiguchi, Taku ^a   Ito, Wataru ^a   Chihara, Junichi ^a   Kato, Tetsuo ^a  

^a AKITA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Constipation; High anal pressure; Manometry; Megacolon; Ultra slow wave

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANORECTAL PRESSURE; ANUS SPHINCTER; ARTICLE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONSTIPATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFECATION DISORDER; FEMALE; HEMORRHOID; HIRSCHSPRUNG DISEASE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MEGACOLON; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CONSTIPATION; HEMORRHOIDS; HUMANS; MANOMETRY; MEGACOLON; ODDS RATIO; PRESSURE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 33847030732     PISSN: 00408727     EISSN: 13493329     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1620/tjem.211.127     Document Type: Article

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