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[Incidence of psychiatric disorders in patients with fecal incontinence].

Authors
  • de Miguel, Mario1
  • Oteiza, Fabiola
  • Armendáriz, Pedro
  • Ciga, Miguel A
  • Marzo, José
  • Ortiz, Héctor
  • Peralta, Víctor
  • 1 Servicio de Cirugía General, Hospital Virgen del Camino, Pamplona, Navarra, Spain. [email protected] , (Spain)
Type
Published Article
Journal
Cirugía Española
Publisher
Elsevier
Publication Date
April 2006
Volume
79
Issue
4
Pages
241–244
Identifiers
PMID: 16753105
Source
Medline
License
Unknown

Abstract

The prevalence of psychiatric alterations is high in patients with fecal incontinence and is correlated with its severity. Patients with psychiatric antecedents can bias evaluation of the association between psychiatric alterations and the severity of fecal incontinence.

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