The role of 3-dimensional anorectal ultrasonography in the assessment of anterior transsphincteric fistula

Diseases of the Colon and Rectum

Volumn 53, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1035-1040

  Murad Regadas, Sthela M ^a   Regadas, Francisco Sergio Pinheiro ^a   Rodrigues, Lusmar Veras ^a   De Carvalho Holanda, Erico ^a   Barreto, Rosilma Gorete Lima ^a   Oliveira, Letícia ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF CEARÁ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Anal fistula; Endorectal ultrasound; Surgery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANUS FISTULA; ANUS SPHINCTER; ANUS SURGERY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FECES INCONTINENCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; SEX DIFFERENCE; SKIN FLAP; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TRANSRECTAL ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

ADULT; ANAL CANAL; ENDOSONOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PROCTOSCOPY; PROGNOSIS; RECTAL FISTULA; RECTUM; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77954413124     PISSN: 00123706     EISSN: 15300358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/DCR.0b013e3181dce163     Document Type: Article

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