What are the symptoms of internal rectal prolapse?

Colorectal Disease

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 368-373

  Wijffels, N A T ^a   Jones, O M ^b   Cunningham, C ^b   Bemelman, W A ^c   Lindsey, I ^b  

^a Zuwe Hofpoort Ziekenhuis   (Netherlands)

^b Pelvic Floor Centre ^*  (United Kingdom)

^c ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Internal rectal prolapse; Symptoms

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ANAL COMPLAINT; ANUS PRURITUS; ARTICLE; BLOATING; COLONOSCOPY; DEFECATION DISORDER; DEFECATION HABIT; DEFECOGRAPHY; DIARRHEA; FECES INCONTINENCE; FEMALE; HEMORRHOID; HUMAN; INTERNAL RECTAL PROLAPSE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM HEMORRHAGE; RECTUM PROLAPSE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SIGMOIDOSCOPY; STOMACH EMPTYING;

CONSTIPATION; DEFECATION; DEFECOGRAPHY; FECAL INCONTINENCE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MANOMETRY; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECTAL PROLAPSE; RECTUM;

EID: 84874389684     PISSN: 14628910     EISSN: 14631318     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1463-1318.2012.03183.x     Document Type: Article

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