Sacral nerve stimulation for bowel dysfunction
Sacral nerve stimulation (SNS) was introduced for urge urinary incontinence in 1981. It resulted in a significant improvement in 80% of patients. In the 1990s it was recognised that the treatment had a beneficial effect on bowel function, particularly faecal incontinence. This led to prospective tri...
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University of Oxford
2006
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| Online Access: | http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.491901 |