Diagnosis and treatment of faecal incontinence: Consensus statement of the Italian Society of Colorectal Surgery and the Italian Association of Hospital Gastroenterologists

Digestive and Liver Disease

Volumn 47, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 628-645

  Pucciani, Filippo ^a   Altomare, Donato Francesco ^b   Dodi, Giuseppe ^c   Falletto, Ezio ^d   Frasson, Alvise ^c   Giani, Iacopo ^e   Martellucci, Jacopo ^f   Naldini, Gabriele ^e   Piloni, Vittorio ^g   Sciaudone, Guido ^h   Bove, Antonio ⁱ   Bocchini, Renato ^j   Bellini, Massimo ^k   Alduini, Pietro ^l   Battaglia, Edda ^m   Galeazzi, Francesca ⁿ   Rossitti, Piera ^o   Usai Satta, Paolo ^p  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF PISA   (Italy)

^f CAREGGI UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^g Diagnostic Imaging Centre N Aliotta   (Italy)

^h SECOND UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES   (Italy)

ⁱ CARDARELLI HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^j Casa di Cura Malatesta Novello   (Italy)

^k UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^l San Luca Hospital   (Italy)

^m CARDINAL MASSAIA HOSPITAL   (Italy)

ⁿ UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^o AOU SM della Misericordia   (Italy)

^p BROTZU HOSPITAL   (Italy)

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Author keywords

Anorectal manometry; Biofeedback; Endoanal ultrasonography; Faecal incontinence; Post anal repair; Rectopexy; Sphincteroplasty

Indexed keywords

AMITRIPTYLINE; ATROPINE; CODEINE; DIMETICONE; DIPHENOXYLATE; ENEMA; LOPERAMIDE; PLACEBO; POLYCARBOPHIL CALCIUM; ANTIDIARRHEAL AGENT; LAXATIVE;

ANORECTAL PRESSURE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COLONOSCOPY; CONSENSUS; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CONSTIPATION; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DEFECOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; EXTERNAL URETHRAL OCCLUDER; FECES INCONTINENCE; GASTROENTEROLOGIST; HUMAN; ITALY; KINESIOTHERAPY; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; MAGNETIC ANAL SPHINCTER; MALONE ANTEROGRADE CONTINENCE ENEMA PROCEDURE; MANOMETRY; NERVE STIMULATION; NEUROGENIC BOWEL; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; PATIENT SELECTION; PELVIC ORGAN PROLAPSE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCTOPEXY; QUALITY OF LIFE; RECTUM PROLAPSE; REHABILITATION CARE; SACRAL NERVE STIMULATION; SPHINCTEROPLASTY; SURGICAL MESH; SUTURE; ANAL CANAL; COLORECTAL SURGERY; CONSENSUS DEVELOPMENT; ELECTROTHERAPY; FECAL INCONTINENCE; INTUSSUSCEPTION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; RECTAL PROLAPSE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

ANAL CANAL; ANTIDIARRHEALS; COLORECTAL SURGERY; ELECTRIC STIMULATION THERAPY; FECAL INCONTINENCE; HUMANS; INTUSSUSCEPTION; ITALY; LAXATIVES; QUALITY OF LIFE; RECTAL PROLAPSE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 84937525308     PISSN: 15908658     EISSN: 18783562     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dld.2015.03.028     Document Type: Article

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