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Title: Measurement of anal cushions in idiopathic faecal incontinence
Author/Creator: Zbar, Andrew
Institution: The University of Newcastle. Faculty of Health, School of Medicine and Public Health
Description: With reference to the article on anal cushion measurement in incontinence by Thekkinkattil and colleagues, the argument has previously been made by Gibbons and co-workers that sphincteric closure alone is insufficient to maintain continence at rest, and that additional mechanisms of hermetic anal occlusion are provided by the haemorrhoid-bearing anal mucosa and submucosa. They showed a linear relationship between sphincter tension and anal canal diameter in accordance with Laplace's law.
Relation: British Journal of Surgery Vol. 96, Issue 11, p. 1373-1374
Publisher Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/bjs.6888
Date: 2009
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Keyword(s): anal cushions; faecal incontinence; measurements
Resource Type: journal article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/806861
Identifier: ISSN:0007-1323

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