Management and prevention of fecal impaction

Current Gastroenterology Reports

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 499-501

  Wald, Arnold ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL DISTENSION; ABDOMINAL PAIN; ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ANOREXIA; CLINICAL FEATURE; COLON HEMORRHAGE; COLON LAVAGE; COLON PERFORATION; CONSTIPATION; DIGITAL IMAGING; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; FECES IMPACTION; FECES INCONTINENCE; HUMAN; INTESTINE MOTILITY; INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; INTESTINE ULCER; MENTAL DISEASE; PATIENT CARE PLANNING; RECURRENT DISEASE; REVIEW; WEIGHT REDUCTION; ARTICLE;

FECAL IMPACTION; HUMANS;

EID: 58149352724     PISSN: 15228037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11894-008-0091-y     Document Type: Review

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