Fecal incontinence in systemic sclerosis is secondary to neuropathy

American Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 107, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 597-603

  Thoua, Nora M ^a   Abdel Halim, Mostafa ^a   Forbes, Alastair ^a   Denton, Chris P ^b   Emmanuel, Anton V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON HOSPITALS   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANORECTAL PRESSURE; ARTICLE; BAROSTAT; BLOOD FLOW; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPLIANCE (PHYSICAL); CONSTIPATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIARRHEA; DISEASE DURATION; FECES INCONTINENCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROPATHY; PARITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTAL COMPLIANCE; RECTOANAL INHIBITORY REFLEX; RECTUM MUCOSA; REFLEX; SYSTEMIC SCLEROSIS;

AGED; ANAL CANAL; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; FECAL INCONTINENCE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MANOMETRY; MIDDLE AGED; PRESSURE; RECTUM; REFLEX, ABDOMINAL; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; SCLERODERMA, SYSTEMIC; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 84859594045     PISSN: 00029270     EISSN: 15720241     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ajg.2011.399     Document Type: Article

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