A theory of progression from obstructed defecation to fecal incontinence

Techniques in Coloproctology

Volumn 19, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 713-715

  Pucciani, F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL DISEASE; ANORECTAL PRESSURE; ANUS SPHINCTER DISORDER; ANUS SURGERY; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CHRONIC CONSTIPATION; DEFECATION DISORDER; DEMENTIA; DESCENDING PERINEUM SYNDROME; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; EDITORIAL; FECES ANALYSIS; FECES INCONTINENCE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HYPOALGESIA; INCONTINENCE; IRRITABLE COLON; NEUROPATHY; NURSING HOME; OBSTRUCTED DEFECATION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PELVIC FLOOR DISORDER; PELVIC FLOOR DYSSYNERGIA; PELVIC FLOOR HYPOTONIA; PELVIS SURGERY; PERINEAL DESCENT; POSTPARTUM INCONTINENCE; PREVALENCE; PUDENDAL NEUROPATHY; QUALITY OF LIFE; RECTAL HYPOSENSITIVITY; RECTOCELE; RECTUM DISEASE; RECTUM PROLAPSE; STOMACH ANTRUM PROLAPSE; TRAUMATIC SPHINCTER LESION; UNITED STATES; ANUS DISEASE; COMPLICATION; CONSTIPATION; FECAL INCONTINENCE; FEMALE; PERINEUM; SENSORY DYSFUNCTION; SYNDROME;

ANUS DISEASES; CONSTIPATION; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FECAL INCONTINENCE; FEMALE; HUMANS; PELVIC FLOOR DISORDERS; PERINEUM; SENSATION DISORDERS; SYNDROME;

EID: 84948067257     PISSN: 11236337     EISSN: 1128045X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10151-015-1394-2     Document Type: Editorial

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