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Experience with partial resection of the puborectalis muscle

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Diseases of the Colon & Rectum

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We have reported 33 adults and 13 children who have undergone partial resection of the puborectalis muscle to correct increasing obstipation, impaction, soiling, incontinence and inability to evacuate the rectum, which could not be improved adequately by training. We recommend the procedure highly.

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  1. Greenville, South Carolina

    W. Clough Wallace M.D. & William M. Madden M.D.

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  1. W. Clough Wallace M.D.
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Read at the meeting of the American Proctologic Society, Denver, Colorado, June 10 to 13, 1968.

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Wallace, W.C., Madden, W.M. Experience with partial resection of the puborectalis muscle. Dis Colon Rectum 12, 196–200 (1969). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02617812

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