Sigmoid compliance and visceral perception in spinal cord injury patients

European Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 340-345

  Salvioli, Beatrice ^a   Bazzocchi, Gabriele ^b   Barbara, Giovanni ^c   Stanghellini, Vincenzo ^c   Cremon, Cesare ^c   Menarini, Mauro ^b   Corinaldesi, Roberto ^c   De Giorgio, Roberto ^c  

^a HUMANITAS CLINICAL AND RESEARCH CENTER   (Italy)

^b Montecatone Rehabilitation Institute   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Constipation; neuroplasticity; sigmoid compliance; spinal cord injury; tensostat

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PRESSURE; ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOATING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONSTIPATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; INTESTINE DISTENSION; INTESTINE FUNCTION; MALE; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUADRIPLEGIA; SIGMOID; SPINAL CORD INJURY; SPINAL CORD TRANSSECTION;

ADULT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHRONIC DISEASE; COLON, SIGMOID; COMPLIANCE; CONSTIPATION; DEFECATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84856737961     PISSN: 0954691X     EISSN: 14735687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MEG.0b013e32834fbf73     Document Type: Article

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