Incontinence: An underappreciated problem in obesity and bariatric surgery

Digestive Diseases and Sciences

Volumn 55, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 2428-2430

  Bharucha, Adil E ^a  

^a Clinical Enteric Neuroscience Translational and Epidemiological Research Mayo Clinic   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BARIATRIC SURGERY; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; DIARRHEA; DISEASE EXACERBATION; EDITORIAL; FECES INCONTINENCE; HUMAN; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRESS; URINE INCONTINENCE; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

BARIATRIC SURGERY; BODY MASS INDEX; DIARRHEA; FECAL INCONTINENCE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; OBESITY, MORBID; PREVALENCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SEX FACTORS; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URINARY INCONTINENCE; WEIGHT LOSS;

EID: 77956184273     PISSN: 01632116     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10620-010-1288-0     Document Type: Editorial

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