Flap-Valve theory of anorectal continenc
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Mr D. C. C. Bartolo; A. M. Roe; J. C. Locke-Edmunds; J. Virjee; N. J. McC. Morte
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Article
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1986
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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Abstract The most important component of continence is considered to be the puborectalis muscle which is reputed to function by creating a flap-valve mechanism in which the anterior rectal wall occludes the upper anal canal. To elucidate this, anal and rectal pressures were measured simultaneously t