A novel three-dimensional dynamic anorectal ultrasonography technique (echodefecography) to assess obstructed defecation, a comparison with defecography

Surgical Endoscopy and Other Interventional Techniques

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 974-979

  Murad Regadas, Sthela M ^a   Regadas, F Sérgio P ^a   Rodrigues, Lusmar V ^a   Silva, Flavio R ^a   Soares, Fabio A ^a   Escalante, Rodrigo D ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF CEARÁ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Anus; Rectocele; Rectum; Technique; Ultrasonography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANISMUS; ANORECTAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONSTIPATION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFECATION DISORDER; DEFECOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DISEASE SEVERITY; ECHODEFECOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RECTOCELE; RECTUM PROLAPSE;

ADULT; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BARIUM SULFATE; CONSTIPATION; CONTRAST MEDIA; DEFECATION; DEFECOGRAPHY; ENDOSONOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECTAL DISEASES;

EID: 42149104401     PISSN: 09302794     EISSN: 14322218     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00464-007-9532-1     Document Type: Article

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