Main description:

- With a dramatic increase in knowledge of anorectal physiology and imaging over the last five years, this book provides a comprehensive study of anorectal assessment.

- Explores all the lastest techniques and treatments in the field

- Organized into two, easy to manage, sections

- First book to pull a diverse area together and includes 3-D ultrasound, transperineal ultrasonography and dynamic MRI not found in other texts on anorectal disorders

Contents:

Anorectal Testing.- Anorectal Anatomy: The Contribution of New Technology.- History, Clinical Examination, and Basic Physiology.- Rectoanal Inhibition.- Vectorvolume Manometry.- Clinical Rectal Compliance Measurement.- Impedance Planimetry: Application for Studies of Rectal Function.- Impedance Planimetry: Clinical Impedance Planimetry.- Ambulatory Manometry.- The Use of Colonic Motility and Transit Studies.- Anorectal Sensitivity.- Neurophysiology in Pelvic Floor Disorders.- Evacuation Proctography.- Defecography: A Swedish Perspective.- Ultrasound in Coloproctologic Practice: Endorectal/Endoanal Ultrasound.- Ultasound in Coloproctologic Practice: Dynamic Transperineal Ultrasound and Transvaginal Sonography.- Three-Dimensional Endoanal Ultrasound in Proctological Practice.- MRI in Colorectal Surgery: Surface Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Anorectal Practice.- MRI in Colorectal Surgery: Endoluminal MR Imaging of Anorectal Diseases.- MRI in Colorectal Surgery: Dynamic Magnetic Resonance Imaging.- Sphincter Pharmacology and Pharmacotherapy.- Anal Histopathology.- Anal Intraepithelial Neoplasia (AIN).- Clinical Anorectal Assessment.- An Overview.- Managing Slow-Transit Constipation.- Rectocele.- Anismus.- Biofeedback for Constipation and Fecal Incontinence.- Evacuatory Dysfunction Following Gynecologic Surgery.- An Overview.- Quality of Life Issues.- Fecal and Urinary Incontinence: Epidemiology and Etiology.- Sacral Neuromodulation.- Urogynecological Assessment and Perspective in Patients Presenting with Evacuatory Dysfunction.- Assessing the Postoperative Patient with Evacuatory Dysfunction: Disordered Defecation of the Neorectum and Neorectal Reservoir.- Evaluation and Management of Postoperative Fecal Incontinence.- An Overview.- Managing Functional Problems Following Dynamic Graciloplasty.- Assessing the Functional Results of the Artificial Bowel Sphincter.- Functional Problems in the Patient with a Neurological Disorder.- Psychological Assessment of Patients with Proctological Disorders.- A Practical Guide to Running an Anorectal Laboratory.- Medicolegal Aspects of Coloproctologic Practice.