Impact of pregnancy and parturition on the anal sphincters and pelvic floor

Best Practice and Research: Clinical Gastroenterology

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 879-891

  Quigley, Eamonn M M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

anal incontinence; anal sphincters; constipation; defaecatory difficulty; faecal incontinence; parturition; pelvic floor; pregnancy

Indexed keywords

ANAMNESIS; ANUS FISSURE; ANUS INJURY; ANUS SPHINCTER; ARTICLE; CHILDBIRTH; CONSTIPATION; DEFECATION DISORDER; FECES INCONTINENCE; GASTROINTESTINAL MOTILITY DISORDER; HEMORRHOID; HUMAN; IRRITABLE COLON; NERVE INJURY; PELVIC FLOOR MUSCLE TRAINING; PELVIC ORGAN PROLAPSE; PELVIS FLOOR; PREGNANCY; PUDENDAL NERVE; PUERPERIUM; RISK FACTOR;

ANAL CANAL; CONSTIPATION; FECAL INCONTINENCE; FEMALE; FISSURE IN ANO; HEMORRHOIDS; HUMANS; IRRITABLE BOWEL SYNDROME; PELVIC FLOOR; POSTPARTUM PERIOD; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; SOFT TISSUE INJURIES;

EID: 34548680285     PISSN: 15216918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bpg.2007.06.001     Document Type: Article

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