Transanal repair for treatment of rectocele in obstructed defaecation: Manual or stapled

Colorectal Disease

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 104-110

  Mahmoud, S A ^a   Omar, W ^a   Farid, M ^a  

^a MANSOURA UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Functional constipation; Rectocele; Transanal repair

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANORECTAL PRESSURE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLON OBSTRUCTION; DEFECOGRAPHY; FECES INCONTINENCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; MANOMETRY; OPERATION DURATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RECTOCELE; RECTUM SURGERY; SAFETY; SURGICAL STAPLING; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

ADULT; ANAL CANAL; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; DEFECOGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ENDOSONOGRAPHY; ENEMA; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL TRANSIT; HUMANS; INTESTINAL OBSTRUCTION; LENGTH OF STAY; MANOMETRY; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUESTIONNAIRES; RECTOCELE; SURGICAL STAPLING; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 83255186821     PISSN: 14628910     EISSN: 14631318     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1463-1318.2010.02502.x     Document Type: Article

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