Rectal Wall Properties in Patients With Acute and Chronic Spinal Cord Lesions

1 May 2002

journal article
research article
Published by Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) in Diseases of the Colon & Rectum

Vol. 45 (5), 641-649
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10350-004-6261-6

Abstract

PURPOSE:Most patients with spinal cord injuries suffer from constipation or fecal incontinence. This study was designed to observe rectal wall properties and the rectoanal inhibitory reflex in patients with acute and chronic spinal cord injury.METHODS:Rectal wall properties were studied by r

Keywords

SPINAL CORD INJURY
CAUDA EQUINA INJURY
RECTUM
ANAL
REFLEXES
IMPEDANCE PLANIMETRY

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