Correlation of bowel symptoms with colonic transit, length, and faecal load in functional faecal retention

Danish Medical Bulletin

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 83-88

  Raahave, Dennis ^a   Christensen, Elsebeth ^a   Loud, Franck B ^a   Knudsen, Lisbet L ^a  

^a North Sealand Hospital   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ARTICLE; BLOATING; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COLON LENGTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFECATION DISORDER; DEFECATION HABIT; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EPIGASTRIC DISCOMFORT; FECES IMPACTION; FEVER; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; HALITOSIS; HUMAN; INTESTINE TRANSIT TIME; LIQUID FECES; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; ORGAN SIZE; PROCTALGIA; QUALITY OF LIFE; RECTUM HEMORRHAGE; SCORING SYSTEM; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; WEIGHT GAIN; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CONSTIPATION; DEFECATION; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL TRANSIT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CONSTIPATION; DEFECATION; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL TRANSIT; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; QUALITY OF LIFE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 68849116771     PISSN: 16039629     EISSN: 16039629     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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