Assessment of obstructive defecation by high-resolution anorectal manometry compared with magnetic resonance defecography

Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Volumn 13, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 1310-1317.e1

  Heinrich, Henriette ^a,b   Sauter, Matthias ^a   Fox, Mark ^a,d   Weishaupt, Dominik ^b   Halama, Marcel ^a   Misselwitz, Benjamin ^a   Buetikofer, Simon ^a   Reiner, Caecilia ^a   Fried, Michael ^a,c   Schwizer, Werner ^a,c   Fruehauf, Heiko ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b TRIEMLI HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d QUEEN S MEDICAL CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

High Resolution anorectal manometry; Magnetic resonance imaging; Obstructive defecation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANORECTAL PRESSURE; ANUS SPHINCTER; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFECATION DISORDER; DEFECOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HIGH RESOLUTION ANORECTAL MANOMETRY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE DEFECOGRAPHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MANOMETRY; MUSCLE FUNCTION; OBSTRUCTIVE DEFECATION; PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; RECTUM PROLAPSE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SYNDROME DELINEATION; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT; ATAXIA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONSTIPATION; DEFECATION; INTESTINAL OBSTRUCTION; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATAXIA; CONSTIPATION; DEFECATION; DEFECOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTESTINAL OBSTRUCTION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MANOMETRY; MIDDLE AGED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84931568801     PISSN: 15423565     EISSN: 15427714     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cgh.2015.01.017     Document Type: Article

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