Effectiveness of biofeedback therapy in the treatment of anterior resection syndrome after rectal cancer surgery
Kathy Davis Clinical nurse consultant/ research fellow (Honorary), St Georges Healthcare Trust, London
A preliminary, non-randomised, retrospective assessment of data identified 70 patients with intractable bowel symptoms following sphincter-saving, low anterior resection surgery for rectal cancer, diagnosed at a specialist centre in Korea. Anterior resection syndrome can result from a decreased rectal reservoir volume, sphincter damage and impaired autonomic bowel innervation and manifests with faecal urgency, incontinence, stool fragmentation or incomplete evacuation.
Primary Health Care.
22, 4, 14-14.
doi: 10.7748/phc.22.4.14.s16
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