Effect of prolonged vaginal distention and sphincter transection on physiologic function of the external anal sphincter in an animal model

Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 111, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 332-340

  Wai, Clifford Y ^a   Miller, Rodney T ^a   Word, R Ann ^a  

^a ProPath Laboratories Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATROPINE; TETRODOTOXIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANUS SPHINCTER; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; LACERATION; MORPHOLOGY; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FATIGUE; MUSCLE FORCE; MUSCLE FUNCTION; MUSCLE TWITCH; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; VAGINA; ANAL CANAL; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; BALLOON DILATATION; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; DISEASE MODEL; EPISIOTOMY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INJURY; INJURY SCALE; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; RANDOMIZATION; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; TIME;

ANAL CANAL; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BALLOON DILATATION; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EPISIOTOMY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; LACERATIONS; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; TIME FACTORS; VAGINA;

EID: 40749130920     PISSN: 00297844     EISSN: 1873233X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/AOG.0b013e318162f6a7     Document Type: Article

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