• Media type: E-Book
  • Title: Constipation : Etiology, Evaluation, and Management
  • Contains: CONTENTS; 1. Definitions and Epidemiology of Constipation; 2. Etiology of Confenital Colorectal Disease; 3. Etiology of Acquired Colorectal Disease: Constipation; 4. Extracolonic Causes of Constipation; 5. Initial Evaluation of Constipation; 6. Constipation-Predominant Irritable Bowel Syndrome; 7. Methods to Measure Small-Bowel and Colonic Transit; 8. Anorectal Manomertry and the Rectoanal Inhabitory Reflix; 9. Defecography: Technique, Interpretation and Current Use; 10. Compliance and Manovolumentry; 11. Electromyography and Pudendal Nerve Terminal Motor Latency
    12. Dynamic Magnetic Resonance Imagaing and Nuclear Imagin13. Biofeedback for Constipation; 14. Medical Treatment of Constipation; 15. Surgical Treatment of Colonic Inertia; 16. Botulinum Toxin and Other New Pharmacologic Approaches to Constipation; 17. Scaral Nerve Stimulation; 18. Surgical Treatment of Tectocele: Colorectal Approaches; 19. Surgical Treatment of Rectocele: Gynecologic Approaches; 20. Perineal Procedures for Rectal Prolapse; 21. Constipation and Rectal Prolapse; 22. Laparoscopic Surgery for Rectal Prolapse; 23. Antegrade Continent Colonic Conduit
    24. Surgical Treatment of Hirschsprung's Disease25. Chagasic Megacolon; 26. Surgical Treatment of Puborectalis Hypertrophy; Subject Index
  • Contributor: Wexner, Steven D. [Other]; Duthie, Graeme S. [Other]
  • imprint: London: Springer-Verlag London Limited, 2006
  • Published in: SpringerLink ; Bücher
  • Issue: Second Edition
  • Extent: Online-Ressource (XVI, 265 p, digital)
  • Language: English
  • DOI: 10.1007/978-1-84628-275-1
  • ISBN: 9781846282751
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  • RVK notation: YC 5300 : Allgemeines
  • Keywords: Verstopfung
  • Origination:
  • Footnote: Includes bibliographical references and index
  • Description: Graeme S. Duthie

    The second edition revised and updated edition is a comprehensive text on the etiology, evaluation and management of chronic, intractable constipation, which as well as being debilitating, is a complaint with many causes and can also be a symptom of more serious pathological changes. Innovations include Professor Norman Williams' Malone Procedure (antegrade continent colonic conduit) and the newer pharmacologic treatments such as nitric oxide and botulinum toxin injections. Written by an international panel of authors, it includes all the new advances developed, described and tested since the