Impact of slow transit constipation on the outcome of laparoscopic ventral rectopexy for obstructed defaecation associated with high grade internal rectal prolapse

Colorectal Disease

Volumn 15, Issue 12, 2013, Pages e749-e756

  Gosselink, M P ^a   Adusumilli, S ^a   Harmston, C ^a   Wijffels, N A ^a,b   Jones, O M ^a   Cunningham, C ^a   Lindsey, I ^a  

^a CHURCHILL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b Zuwe Hofpoort Ziekenhuis   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Constipation; Obstructed defaecation; Rectopexy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANORECTAL PRESSURE; ARTICLE; CONSTIPATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFECATION; DEFECATION DISORDER; DEFECOGRAPHY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FECAL INCONTINENCE SEVERITY INDEX; FECES INCONTINENCE; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL QUALITY OF LIFE INDEX; HIGH GRADE INTERNAL RECTAL PROLAPSE; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LAPAROSCOPIC VENTRAL RECTOPEXY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBSTRUCTED DEFECATION; PATIENT ASSESSMENT OF CONSTIPATION QUALITY OF LIFE SCALE; PATIENT ASSESSMENT OF CONSTIPATION SYMPTOMS QUESTIONNAIRE; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCTOPEXY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RECTUM PROLAPSE;

CONSTIPATION; OBSTRUCTED DEFAECATION; RECTOPEXY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COLON; CONSTIPATION; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM SURGICAL PROCEDURES; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL TRANSIT; HUMANS; INTESTINAL OBSTRUCTION; LAPAROSCOPY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUALITY OF LIFE; RECTAL PROLAPSE; RECTUM; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84888020778     PISSN: 14628910     EISSN: 14631318     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/codi.12443     Document Type: Article

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