Validation of the Balloon Evacuation Test: Reproducibility and Agreement With Findings From Anorectal Manometry and Electromyography

Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Volumn 12, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 2049-2054

  Chiarioni, Giuseppe ^a,b   Kim, Sung Min ^b   Vantini, Italo ^a   Whitehead, William E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF VERONA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Diagnostic Test; Disordered Defecation; Obstructive Defecation; Screening

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANORECTAL PRESSURE; ARTICLE; BALLOON EVACUATION TEST; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CONSTIPATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIGITAL RECTAL EXAMINATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GASTROENTEROLOGY; HUMAN; ITALY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PELVIC DISEASE; PELVIC FLOOR DYSSYNERGIA; REPRODUCIBILITY; TEST RETEST RELIABILITY; VALIDATION PROCESS; ANAL CANAL; ATAXIA; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; MANOMETRY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PELVIS FLOOR; PROCEDURES; VALIDATION STUDY;

ADULT; ANAL CANAL; ATAXIA; DIAGNOSTIC TESTS, ROUTINE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; ITALY; MALE; MANOMETRY; MIDDLE AGED; PELVIC FLOOR; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 84918828140     PISSN: 15423565     EISSN: 15427714     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cgh.2014.03.013     Document Type: Article

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