The role of impedance planimetry in anorectal assessment (letter)

Title: The role of impedance planimetry in anorectal assessment (letter)
Creator: Zbar, Andrew P.
Relation: Diseases of the Colon & Rectum Vol. 51, Issue 10, p. 1584-1585
Publisher Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10350-008-9424-z
Publisher: American Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 2008
Description: The advantage of the impedance planimetric technique is to more readily define reproducible values for dynamic rectal compliance and elasticity, where conventional proctometrographic (pressure/volume) curves have proven less accurate. The real-time ultrasonographic measurement of rectal cross-sectional areas (CSA) during distension (and deflation) is less reliant on the intrinsic compliance characteristics of the balloon assembly or on inherent rectal geometry. In this sense, impedance planimetry provides a better reflection of rectal wall stiffness and altered viscoelastic properties during inflation/deflation cycles.
Subject: rectal motility; impedance planimetry; anorectoral gradient reversal; rectal geometries
Identifier: uon:4986
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/42840
Identifier: ISSN:1530-0358
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