Can high-resolution anorectal manometry shed new light on defecatory disorders?

Gastroenterology

Volumn 144, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 263-265

  Rao, Satish S C ^a   Hasler, William L ^b  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANORECTAL PRESSURE; BODY MASS; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CONSTIPATION; DEFECATION DISORDER; DEFECOGRAPHY; HIGH RESOLUTION ANORECTAL TOPOGRAPHY AND MANOMETRY; HUMAN; HYSTERECTOMY; MANOMETRY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOGENESIS; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SENSORY DYSFUNCTION; TERTIARY CARE CENTER; ANAL CANAL; CLASSIFICATION; DEFECATION; FEMALE; GENETICS; NOTE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RECTUM;

ANAL CANAL; CONSTIPATION; DEFECATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; RECTUM;

EID: 84881490781     PISSN: 00165085     EISSN: 15280012     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.gastro.2012.12.011     Document Type: Editorial

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