Severity of fecal urgency and incontinence in inflammatory bowel disease: Clinical, manometric and sonographic predictors

Inflammatory Bowel Diseases

Volumn 19, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 2450-2456

  Papathanasopoulos, Athanasios ^a   Oudenhove, Lukas Van ^b   Katsanos, Konstantinos ^a   Christodoulou, Dimitrios ^a   Tack, Jan ^b   Tsianos, Epameinondas V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Anorectal manometry; Clinical activity; Endoanal ultrasound; Fecal incontinence

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANUS SPHINCTER; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFECATION URGENCY; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENTERITIS; FECES INCONTINENCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTESTINAL DYSMOTILITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MANOMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ULTRASOUND;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANAL CANAL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ENDOSONOGRAPHY; FECAL INCONTINENCE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASES; MALE; MANOMETRY; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECTUM; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84888249028     PISSN: 10780998     EISSN: 15364844     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MIB.0b013e3182a2952b     Document Type: Article

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