Intestinal pseudo-obstruction--a review.
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Intestinal pseudo-obstruction--a review.
Pseudo-obstruction is an abnormality of intestinal motility severe enough to produce the clinical features of intestinal obstruction. Normal intestinal motility depends upon the modulation by nerves and hormones of the intrinsic rhythmical contractility of the smooth muscle syncytium. Contraction occurs when hyperpolarising action potentials (spikes or electrical response activity, ERA) coincid...
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عنوان ژورنال: Postgraduate Medical Journal
سال: 1985
ISSN: 0032-5473
DOI: 10.1136/pgmj.61.722.1033