Emerging surgical therapies for faecal incontinence

Nature Reviews Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 279-286

  Mitchell, Peter J ^a   Sagar, Peter M ^a  

^a ST JAMES S UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BULKING AGENT; ENEMA;

ANAL CANAL; ANUS SPHINCTER; ANUS SURGERY; ARTIFICIAL BOWEL SPHINCTER; CELL THERAPY; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FECES INCONTINENCE; FECES INCONTINENCE DEVICE; GRACILOPLASTY; HUMAN; IMPLANTABLE NEUROSTIMULATOR; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; MAGNETIC ANAL SPHINCTER; MINIMALLY INVASIVE PROCEDURE; MYOBLAST; NERVE STIMULATION; PORTABLE EQUIPMENT; POSTERIOR TIBIAL NERVE STIMULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCTOPEXY; QUALITY OF LIFE; RADIATION ENERGY; RADIOFREQUENCY RADIATION; REVIEW; SACRAL NERVE STIMULATION; STOMA; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; COLORECTAL SURGERY; ELECTROSTIMULATION THERAPY; FECAL INCONTINENCE; LUMBOSACRAL PLEXUS; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; TRENDS;

BIOFEEDBACK, PSYCHOLOGY; COLORECTAL SURGERY; ELECTRIC STIMULATION THERAPY; FECAL INCONTINENCE; HUMANS; LUMBOSACRAL PLEXUS; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; QUALITY OF LIFE;

EID: 84900425692     PISSN: 17595045     EISSN: 17595053     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrgastro.2013.220     Document Type: Review

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