Constipation in childhood

Nature Reviews Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 502-511

  Mugie, Suzanne M ^a   Di Lorenzo, Carlo ^a   Benninga, Marc A ^b  

^a EMMA CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

^b NATIONWIDE CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIFIDOBACTERIUM LACTIS EXTRACT; ENEMA; LACTITOL; LACTULOSE; LAXATIVE; MACROGOL; MACROGOL 3350; PLACEBO; PROBIOTIC AGENT; SUPPOSITORY BASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ALLERGY; ANAMNESIS; ANASTOMOSIS LEAKAGE; ANASTOMOSIS STENOSIS; ANORECTAL PRESSURE; ANOREXIA NERVOSA; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; CECOSTOMY; CHILD REARING; COLON RESECTION; CONSTIPATION; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; DEFECATION DISORDER; DEFECATION URGENCY; DIARRHEA; DIET THERAPY; DIETARY FIBER; ENDOCRINE DISEASE; ENTEROPATHY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FECES INCONTINENCE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GRANULATION TISSUE; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; LIQUID FECES; LONG TERM CARE; LOOSE FECES; MAINTENANCE THERAPY; METABOLIC DISORDER; NEUROMODULATION; NEUROPATHY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PATIENT EDUCATION; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM DISEASE; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SCLERODERMA; SEXUAL ABUSE; SKIN INFECTION; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT;

ADOLESCENT; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CONSTIPATION; DIETARY FIBER; ENEMA; HUMANS; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; PROBIOTICS;

EID: 80052473697     PISSN: 17595045     EISSN: 17595053     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrgastro.2011.130     Document Type: Review

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