What is necessary to diagnose constipation?

Best Practice and Research: Clinical Gastroenterology

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 127-140

  Rao, Satish S C ^a   Meduri, Kalyani ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Anorectal manometry; Colon transit; Colonic manometry; Constipation; Diagnostic tests; Rectal exam

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; GLUCOSE; LAXATIVE;

ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ABNORMAL FECES; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; BARIUM ENEMA; BAROSTAT; CALCIUM BLOOD LEVEL; COLON DISEASE; COLONOSCOPY; CONSTIPATION; DEFECATION HABIT; DEFECOGRAPHY; DIETARY INTAKE; DIGITAL RECTAL EXAMINATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DIVERTICULOSIS; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT EXAMINATION; GASTROINTESTINAL TRANSIT; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; MANOMETRY; MEDICAL HISTORY; MYOPATHY; NEUROPATHY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; RECTUM HEMORRHAGE; SCINTIGRAPHY; SEXUAL ABUSE; SIGMOIDOSCOPY; WIRELESS MOTILITY CAPSULE;

CHRONIC DISEASE; CONSTIPATION; DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES, DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; HUMANS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS;

EID: 79952372102     PISSN: 15216918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bpg.2010.11.001     Document Type: Article

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