Does colorectal endometriosis alter intestinal functions? A prospective manometric and questionnaire-based study

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 97, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 652-656

  Mabrouk, Mohamed ^a,b   Ferrini, Giulia ^a   Montanari, Giulia ^a   Di Donato, Nadine ^a   Raimondo, Diego ^a   Stanghellini, Vincenzo ^a   Corinaldesi, Roberto ^a   Seracchioli, Renato ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b ALEXANDRIA UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

anorectal manometry; Deep infiltrating endometriosis; hypertone; intestinal function; rectosigmoid

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANORECTAL PRESSURE; ANUS SPHINCTER; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONSTIPATION; DEFECATION; DEFECATION DISORDER; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM FUNCTION DISORDER; DYSMENORRHEA; DYSPAREUNIA; DYSURIA; ENDOMETRIOSIS; FECES INCONTINENCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTESTINE FUNCTION; INTESTINE MOTILITY; PAIN; PELVIS PAIN SYNDROME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RECTOSIGMOID ENDOMETRIOSIS; SCORING SYSTEM; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; ANAL CANAL; COLONIC DISEASES; DEFECATION; ENDOMETRIOSIS; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL MOTILITY; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; INTESTINE, LARGE; ITALY; MANOMETRY; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PRESSURE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUESTIONNAIRES; RECTAL DISEASES; SENSORY THRESHOLDS;

EID: 84857783052     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: 15565653     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2011.12.019     Document Type: Article

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