Ambulatory abdominal inductance plethysmography: towards objective assessment of abdominal distension in irritable bowel syndrome
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Ambulatory abdominal inductance plethysmography: towards objective assessment of abdominal distension in irritable bowel syndrome.
BACKGROUND Abdominal distension is one of the cardinal features of irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) with patients often ranking it as more intrusive than their pain or bowel dysfunction. If this symptom could be quantified accurately and reliably it would provide, for the first time, an objective way of assessing this disorder. Using the principle of inductance plethysmography we have developed a...
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عنوان ژورنال: Gut
سال: 2001
ISSN: 0017-5749
DOI: 10.1136/gut.48.2.216