Rectocele and intussusception: Is there any coherence in symptoms or additional pelvic floor disorders?

Techniques in Coloproctology

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 17-26

  Hausammann, R ^b   Steffen, T ^a   Weishaupt, D ^b   Beutner, U ^a   Hetzer, F H ^a  

^a CANTONAL HOSPITAL ST GALLEN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Constipation; Enterocele; Incontinence; Intussusception; Rectocele

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONSTIPATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEFECATION DISORDER; ENTEROCELE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGING; INTUSSUSCEPTION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PAIN; PELVIC ORGAN PROLAPSE; PELVIS FLOOR; RECTOCELE; SCORING SYSTEM; SITTING; SYMPTOM; URINE INCONTINENCE; VAGINAL DELIVERY; VALIDATION STUDY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COLONIC DISEASES; DEFECATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; INTUSSUSCEPTION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MIDDLE AGED; PELVIC FLOOR; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RECTOCELE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 67349089555     PISSN: 11236337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10151-009-0454-x     Document Type: Article

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