Anal incontinence

Best Practice and Research: Clinical Gastroenterology

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 505-515

  Bartolo, David C C ^a   Paterson, Hugh M ^a  

^a WESTERN GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

artificial bowel sphincter; dynamic graciloplasty; malone antegrade continent enema; obstetric injury; rectal irrigation; sacral neuromodulation

Indexed keywords

ALPHA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; AMITRIPTYLINE; BISACODYL; CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKING AGENT; GLYCEROL; LAXATIVE; LOPERAMIDE; NITRIC OXIDE DONOR;

ANUS SPHINCTER DISORDER; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLOSTOMY; CONSTIPATION; DEFECATION URGENCY; DIARRHEA; DIETARY FIBER; DIGITAL RECTAL EXAMINATION; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DRUG DOSE TITRATION; DYNAMIC GRACILLOPLASTY; ECHOGRAPHY; EPISIOTOMY; EVENING DOSAGE; FECES INCONTINENCE; FORCEPS DELIVERY; GYNECOLOGIC DISEASE; HUMAN; INTESTINE SURGERY; LAVAGE; LOW DRUG DOSE; NERVE STIMULATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PELVIS SURGERY; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; QUALITY OF LIFE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SALVAGE THERAPY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPHINCTEROPLASTY;

ANAL CANAL; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM SURGICAL PROCEDURES; DIGITAL RECTAL EXAMINATION; ENDOSONOGRAPHY; FECAL INCONTINENCE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RISK FACTORS; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MINIMALLY INVASIVE; THERAPEUTIC IRRIGATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 67651222420     PISSN: 15216918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bpg.2009.06.001     Document Type: Article

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