Reduced neorectal capacitance is a more important factor for impaired defecatory function after rectal resection than the anal sphincter pressure

Colorectal Disease

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 193-198

  Schuld, J ^a   Kreissler Haag, D ^a   Remke, M ^a   Steigemann, N ^b   Schilling, M ^a   Scheingraber, S ^b  

^a SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b Department of General and Visceral Surgery   (Germany)

Author keywords

Anorectal manometry; Electromyography; External and internal sphincter; Low rectal anastomosis; Neorectal capacity; Sphincter preserving rectal resection

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ADJUVANT THERAPY; ADULT; AGED; ANORECTAL PRESSURE; ARTICLE; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DEFECATION; DEFECATION DISORDER; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; END TO END ANASTOMOSIS; FECES INCONTINENCE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; HUMAN; MALE; ORGAN SIZE; PARAMETER; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM ANASTOMOSIS; RECTUM CANCER; RECTUM CARCINOMA; RECTUM RESECTION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; CONSTIPATION; DEFECATION; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM SURGICAL PROCEDURES; FECAL INCONTINENCE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MANOMETRY; MIDDLE AGED; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; RECTUM;

EID: 77954367981     PISSN: 14628910     EISSN: 14631318     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1463-1318.2009.01775.x     Document Type: Article

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