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Over the last few months, at the General Hospital in Birmingham, we have been looking at a group of patients with chronic constipation whose main presenting symptoms have been an inability to open their bowels more than once a week without the help of large doses of laxatives and/or enemas. The duration of symptoms had been at least 2 years. This is a clinical and ongoing study and, as yet, we have not reached any conclusions.
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Shouler, P., Keighley, M.R.B., Dykes, P.W. (1984). Abnormalities of Anorectal Function in Patients with Chronic Constipation who are Unable to Defaecate. In: Givel, JC., Saegesser, F. (eds) Colo-Proctology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-95439-9_21
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