The Bristol scale- A useful system to assess stool form?;Escala de Bristol: ¿Un sistema útil para valorar la forma de las heces?

Revista Espanola de Enfermedades Digestivas

Volumn 101, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 305-311

  Minguez Perez M ^a   Benages Martinez A ^a  

^a HOSPITAL CLÍNICO UNIVERSITARIO   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL PRACTICE; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM FUNCTION DISORDER; EDITORIAL; FECES ANALYSIS; FECES CULTURE; FOOD INTAKE;

CLASSIFICATION; DEFECATION; FECES; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASES; GASTROINTESTINAL TRANSIT; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HUMANS; MALE; OBSERVATION; OBSERVER VARIATION; PATIENTS;

EID: 70349974073     PISSN: 11300108     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Editorial

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