Changes in bowel function following transanal and transvaginal rectocele repair

Digestive Surgery

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 46-53

  Tsujinaka, Shingo ^a   Tsujinaka, Yasunobu ^a,b   Matsuo, Keigo ^a   Akagi, Kazunari ^a   Hamahata, Yukihiro ^a  

^a Tokatsu Tsujinaka Hospital   (Japan)

^b Tokatsu Tsujinaka Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Defecation, rectocele; Questionnaires, rectocele repair outcome; Rectocele repair; Treatment outcome, rectocele repair

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFECATION DISORDER; FECES; FECES INCONTINENCE; FEMALE; FLATULENCE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTESTINE FUNCTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRURITUS; QUESTIONNAIRE; RECTOCELE; RECTUM SURGERY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL PATIENT; SURGICAL RISK; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANAL CANAL; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; DEFECATION; FECAL INCONTINENCE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; QUESTIONNAIRES; RECTOCELE; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VAGINA;

EID: 34247244146     PISSN: 02534886     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000100918     Document Type: Article

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