Rectal sensorimotor dysfunction in constipation

Best Practice and Research: Clinical Gastroenterology

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 103-118

  Scott, S M ^a   Van Den Berg, M M ^b   Benninga, M A ^c  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^c EMMA CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Adult; Barostat; Biomechanics; Compliance; Constipation; Hyposensitivity; Motor complex; Paediatric; Phasic contractions; Prolonged manometry; Rectum; Sensorimotor; Tone

Indexed keywords

LAXATIVE;

ARTICLE; BAROSTAT; CONSTIPATION; DEFECATION DISORDER; DERMATOME; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; HUMAN; MANOMETRY; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NERVE STIMULATION; NEUROPATHY; PARKINSON DISEASE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PELVIC DISEASE; PELVIS FLOOR; RECTAL HYPOSENSITIVITY; RECTUM DISEASE; RECTUM SURGERY; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SENSORY DYSFUNCTION; SMOOTH MUSCLE CONTRACTILITY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; BIOMECHANICS; CHILD; CHRONIC DISEASE; CONSTIPATION; GASTROINTESTINAL MOTILITY; HUMANS; RECTUM; SENSATION;

EID: 79952417080     PISSN: 15216918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bpg.2011.01.001     Document Type: Article

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