Constipation Is Associated With Spina Bifida Occulta in Children

Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Volumn 6, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1348-1353

  Yuan, Zhengwei ^a   Cheng, Wei ^b   Hou, Ana ^a   Wang, Wei ^a   Zhang, Shucheng ^a   Liu, Dan ^a   Gao, Fei ^a   Li, Hui ^a   Wang, Weilin ^a  

^a CHINA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b MONASH MEDICAL CENTRE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ANORECTAL PRESSURE; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONSTIPATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ELECTROMYOGRAM; ELECTROSTIMULATION; FECES INCONTINENCE; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INTESTINE TRANSIT TIME; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OCCULT SPINAL DYSRAPHISM;

CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COLON; CONSTIPATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FECAL INCONTINENCE; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL TRANSIT; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MANOMETRY; RADIOGRAPHY, ABDOMINAL; RECTUM; SPINA BIFIDA OCCULTA;

EID: 57249092709     PISSN: 15423565     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cgh.2008.07.009     Document Type: Article

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