Effects of pregnancy, parturition, and anal sphincter transection on function of the external anal sphincter in an animal model

Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 113, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 909-916

  Rahn, David D ^b   White, Amanda B ^b   Miller, Rodney T ^b   Word, R Ann ^b   Wai, Clifford Y ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b ProPath Laboratories Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANOPLASTY; ANUS INJURY; ANUS SPHINCTER; ANUS SPHINCTER LACERATION; ARTICLE; BIRTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRIC FIELD; ELECTROSTIMULATION; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; MORPHOLOGY; MUSCLE FATIGUE; MUSCLE FORCE; MUSCLE TETANIC CONTRACTION; MUSCLE TWITCH; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SHAM PROCEDURE; VAGINAL DELIVERY; ANAL CANAL; ANIMAL; DISEASE MODEL; INJURY; INJURY SCALE; LACERATION; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; RANDOMIZATION; TIME;

ANAL CANAL; ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; FEMALE; LACERATIONS; PARTURITION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREGNANCY; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS; TIME FACTORS; TRAUMA SEVERITY INDICES;

EID: 65649102271     PISSN: 00297844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/AOG.0b013e31819cdcc1     Document Type: Article

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