Surgical treatment for constipation in children and adults

Best Practice and Research: Clinical Gastroenterology

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 167-179

  Levitt, Marc A ^a   Mathis, Kellie L ^b   Pemberton, John H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

Adult; Constipation; Evacuatory disorders; Fecal incontinence; Pediatric; Surgery

Indexed keywords

ENEMA; LAXATIVE;

ADULT; ANASTOMOSIS; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COLON RESECTION; CONSTIPATION; DEFECATION DISORDER; DELORMES PROCEDURE; FECES INCONTINENCE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; ILEORECTAL ANASTOMOSIS; INTESTINAL DYSMOTILITY; INTESTINE MOTILITY; LAPAROSCOPY; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PERISTALSIS; PROCTOPEXY; RECTOCELE; RECTUM PROLAPSE; RECTUM SURGERY; REOPERATION; STAPLED TRANSANAL RECTAL RESECTION;

ADULT; CHILD; COLON; CONSTIPATION; DEFECATION; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM SURGICAL PROCEDURES; HUMANS; PATIENT SELECTION; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 79952381374     PISSN: 15216918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bpg.2010.12.007     Document Type: Article

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