Common anorectal disorders: Diagnosis and treatment

Current Gastroenterology Reports

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 413-419

  Lacy, Brian E ^a   Weiser, Kirsten ^a  

^a DARTMOUTH HITCHCOCK MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOTULINUM TOXIN; CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKING AGENT; CAPSAICIN; GLYCERYL TRINITRATE; HYDROCORTISONE; METHYLENE BLUE; PLACEBO; SALBUTAMOL;

ANORECTAL DISEASE; ANUS FISSURE; ANUS PRURITUS; BATH; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLONOSCOPY; DEFECATION DISORDER; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIETARY FIBER; DIGITAL RECTAL EXAMINATION; DYSSYRNERGIC DEFECATION; FECES INCONTINENCE; HEADACHE; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; INCONTINENCE; INFLAMMATION; LABORATORY TEST; NAUSEA; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PROCTALGIA; RECTUM ULCER; REVIEW; SITZ BATH; SOLITARY RECTAL ULCER SYNDROME; SPHINCTEROTOMY; SYMPTOM; VISCERAL PAIN;

ANUS DISEASES; ANUS NEOPLASMS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FECAL INCONTINENCE; FEMALE; FISSURE IN ANO; HEMORRHOIDS; HUMANS; MALE; META-ANALYSIS AS TOPIC; PROLAPSE; PRURITUS ANI; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; RECTAL DISEASES; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 70349511802     PISSN: 15228037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11894-009-0062-y     Document Type: Review

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