Long-term follow-up of dynamic graciloplasty for faecal incontinence

Colorectal Disease

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 470-476

  Thornton, M J ^a   Kennedy, M L ^a   Lubowski, David Z ^a,b   King, D W ^a  

^a ST GEORGE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b St George Private Medical Center   (Australia)

Author keywords

Dynamic graciloplasty; Faecal incontinence; Morbidity

Indexed keywords

LAXATIVE; LOPERAMIDE;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ANORECTAL PRESSURE; ANUS CONTINENCE; ANUS SPHINCTER; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLOSTOMY; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION FUNCTION; DEFECATION DISORDER; DIAPER; DIARRHEA; FECES INCONTINENCE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GRACILIS MUSCLE; HUMAN; INTESTINE FUNCTION; LEG PAIN; LEG SWELLING; LONG TERM CARE; MALE; MORBIDITY; MUSCLE TRANSPOSITION; PARESTHESIA; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION; TELEPHONE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANAL CANAL; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; FECAL INCONTINENCE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MANOMETRY; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE, SMOOTH; PATIENT SATISFACTION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; QUALITY OF LIFE; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 8844265303     PISSN: 14628910     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1463-1318.2004.00714.x     Document Type: Article

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