Evaluation of Postoperative Damage to Anal Sphincter/Levator Ani Muscles with Three-Dimensional Vector Manometry after Sphincter-Preserving Operation for Rectal Cancer

Journal of the American College of Surgeons

Volumn 208, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 362-367

  Koda, Keiji ^a   Yasuda, Hideki ^a   Hirano, Atsushi ^a   Kosugi, Chihiro ^a   Suzuki, Masato ^a   Yamazaki, Masato ^a   Tezuka, Tohru ^a   Higuchi, Ryota ^a   Tsuchiya, Hironori ^a   Saito, Norio ^b  

^a TEIKYO UNIVERSITY CHIBA MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL CANCER CENTER HOSPITAL EAST   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANAL CANAL; ANORECTAL PRESSURE; ANUS SPHINCTER DISORDER; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFECATION DISORDER; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEVATOR ANI MUSCLE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PELVIS FLOOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM ANTERIOR RESECTION; RECTUM CANCER;

AGED; ANAL CANAL; FECAL INCONTINENCE; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE; MANOMETRY; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; WOUNDS, PENETRATING;

EID: 60149092971     PISSN: 10727515     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jamcollsurg.2008.10.035     Document Type: Article

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