Constipation and evacuation disorders

Best Practice and Research: Clinical Gastroenterology

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 517-530

  Chatoor, Dave ^a   Emmnauel, Anton ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

biofeedback; intussusception; rectal irrigation; rectocele; sacral neuromodulation; stapled transanal rectal resection; transit study

Indexed keywords

ALOSETRON; ANTHRAQUINONE DERIVATIVE; ARACHIS OIL; BISACODYL; CASCARA; CHOLINESTERASE INHIBITOR; COLCHICINE; DANTRON; DOCUSATE SODIUM; GLYCEROL; HERBACEOUS AGENT; LACTULOSE; LAXATIVE; LIQUID PARAFFIN; LUBIPROSTONE; MAGNESIUM HYDROXIDE; NEOSTIGMINE; PRUCALOPRIDE; PYRIDOSTIGMINE; TEGASEROD;

ARTICLE; COLON DILATATION; COLON RESECTION; COLONOSCOPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CONSTIPATION; DEFECATION DISORDER; DEFECOGRAPHY; DIARRHEA; DIETARY FIBER; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG INDUCED HEADACHE; DRUG SAFETY; FECES IMPACTION; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; GOUT; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HIRSCHSPRUNG DISEASE; HUMAN; INTESTINE PSEUDOOBSTRUCTION; INTESTINE SECRETION; INTESTINE SURGERY; INTESTINE TRANSIT TIME; LAVAGE; MICTURITION DISORDER; MORBIDITY; NAUSEA; NERVE STIMULATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PAIN; PATIENT SELECTION; PELVIC ORGAN PROLAPSE; PEPTIC ULCER; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RECTOCELE; RECTUM PROLAPSE; SENNA; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION;

CHRONIC DISEASE; CONSTIPATION; DEFECATION; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HUMANS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 67651202657     PISSN: 15216918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bpg.2009.05.001     Document Type: Article

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