No electrophysiological evidence for Onuf's nucleus degeneration causing bladder and bowel symptoms in Huntington's disease patients

Neurourology and Urodynamics

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 524-530

  Kolenc, Matej ^a   Kobal, Jan ^b,c   Podnar, Simon ^b  

^a General Hospital Novo mesto   (Slovenia)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTRE LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^c UNIVERSITY PSYCHIATRIC HOSPITAL   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

bladder symptoms; bowel symptoms; Huntington's disease; neurophysiology; neurourology; sphincter electromyography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANUS SPHINCTER; ARTICLE; BLADDER DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFECATION URGENCY; DEGENERATION; DIARRHEA; ELECTROMYOGRAM; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; ENTEROPATHY; FECES INCONTINENCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUNTINGTON CHOREA; MALE; ONUF NUCLEUS DEGENERATION; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; QUESTIONNAIRE; URINARY URGENCY; URINE INCONTINENCE; ANAL CANAL; ANTERIOR HORN CELL; BACK; COMPLICATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; INNERVATION; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REFLEX; URGE INCONTINENCE;

ADULT; AGED; ANAL CANAL; ANTERIOR HORN CELLS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; FECAL INCONTINENCE; FEMALE; HUMANS; HUNTINGTON DISEASE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REFLEX; SACROCOCCYGEAL REGION; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; URINARY INCONTINENCE, URGE;

EID: 84902801573     PISSN: 07332467     EISSN: 15206777     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nau.22451     Document Type: Article

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