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Rectal compliance: a critical reappraisal

✍ Scribed by R. D. Madoff; W. J. Orrom; D. A. Rothenberger; S. M. Goldberg

Publisher: Springer
Year: 1990
Tongue: English
Weight: 323 KB
Volume: 5
Category: Article
ISSN: 0179-1958
DOI: 10.1007/bf00496148

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✦ Synopsis

Compliance is a widely measured parameter of rectal function. Its value is determined clinically by recording pressure changes associated with volume infusion into a rectal balloon. This paper examines the inherent assumptions of the rectal balloon technique and discusses several of its shortcomings. A stricter definition of rectal compliance is needed, and in vivo compliance should be correlated with the directly measured mechanical properties of the rectal wall.

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