The Rectum: A Window to Irritable Bowel Syndrome? Journal Articles

abstract

• This report summarizes current concepts and information gathered to date about the rectum in the irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) that were presented at the 10th meeting of IBiS Club held in Leuven, Belgium. A working group of experts in the field of IBS discussed whether the rectum or the whole colon is the better site to test in IBS patients and provided suggestions for a number of areas where further advances are required.

authors

• Coremans, G
• Azpiroz, F
• Collins, Stephen Michael
• Dapoigny, M
• Müller-Lissner, SA
• Pace, F
• Smout, A
• Stockbrügger, RW
• Whorwell, PJ

status

• published 

publication date

• 2002

has subject area

• 1103 Clinical Sciences (FoR)
• Biopsy (MeSH)
• Colonic Diseases, Functional (MeSH)
• Constipation (MeSH)
• Diarrhea (MeSH)
• Gastroenterology & Hepatology (Science Metrix)
• Gastrointestinal Motility (MeSH)
• Humans (MeSH)
• Manometry (MeSH)
• Muscle Contraction (MeSH)
• Rectum (MeSH)

published in

• Digestion  Journal

keywords

• Biopsy
• Colonic Diseases, Functional
• Constipation
• Diarrhea
• Gastrointestinal Motility
• Humans
• Manometry
• Muscle Contraction
• Rectum

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1159/000063823

PubMed ID

• 12239466

start page

• 238

end page

• 249

volume

• 65

issue

• 4