Rectocele or stool quality: What matters more for symptoms of obstructed defecation?

Techniques in Coloproctology

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 265-268

  Dietz, H P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Imaging; Obstructed defecation; Prolapse; Rectocele; Translabial ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CONSTIPATION; DEFECATION DISORDER; DEFECATION HABIT; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; HUMAN; INCOMPLETE BOWEL EMPTYING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RATING SCALE; RECTOCELE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; VAGINA DISEASE; VAGINAL DIGITATION; VAGINAL LUMP;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COMORBIDITY; CONSTIPATION; DEFECATION; FECES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECTOCELE; UTERINE PROLAPSE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77949916779     PISSN: 11236337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10151-009-0527-x     Document Type: Article

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