- Title
- Measurement of anal cushions in idiopathic faecal incontinence
- Creator
- Zbar, Andrew
- Relation
- British Journal of Surgery Vol. 96, Issue 11, p. 1373-1374
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/bjs.6888
- Publisher
- John Wiley & Sons
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2009
- 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.
- Subject
- anal cushions; faecal incontinence; measurements
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/806861
- Identifier
- uon:7236
- Identifier
- ISSN:0007-1323
- Language
- eng
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