- Foreword
- Preface
- Contributors list
- Chapter 1 Establishing and developing a pelvic floor service: the multidisciplinary team and the approach to patient assessment
- Chapter 2 Radiological workup
- Chapter 3 Anorectal physiology
- Chapter 4 Faecal incontinence: a pathophysiological approach
- Chapter 5 Obstructed defaecation: a pathophysiological approach
- Chapter 6 Chronic anorectal pain: a pathophysiological approach
- Chapter 7 Conservative treatment of pelvic floor disorders
- Chapter 8 Three compartments–working with a multidisciplinary team
- Chapter 9 Internal rectal prolapse
- Chapter 10 Anismus
- Chapter 11 Rectocele
- Chapter 12 Solitary rectal ulcer syndrome (SRUS)
- Chapter 13 Slow transit constipation
- Chapter 14 Perineoproctology (fissures and haemorrhoids)
- Chapter 15 Pudendal pain syndrome
- Chapter 16 Obstetric sphincter injury
- Chapter 17 Rectal sensory dysfunction
- Chapter 18 Laparoscopic ventral rectopexy (with posterior colporraphy and vaginal sacrocolpopexy)
- Chapter 19 STARR and Transtar
- Chapter 20 Complete pelvic floor ultrasound
- Chapter 21 Sacral neuromodulation
- Chapter 22 Anal bulking
- Chapter 23 Anterior sphincter repair
- Chapter 24 Neosphincters and artificial sphincters for treating faecal incontinence
- Index
(p. 85) Three compartments–working with a multidisciplinary team
- Chapter:
- (p. 85) Three compartments–working with a multidisciplinary team
- Author(s):
Karen Nugent
- DOI:
- 10.1093/med/9780199579624.003.0008
Chapter 8 discusses the hardly surprising fact that, considering the mechanisms of injury resulting in pelvic floor problems in the colorectal patient, that many of these patients have co-existing urological and gynaecological problems. The anatomy of the pelvic floor, both muscular and neurological, suggests that damage to one part of the anatomy may well result in damage to a closely related organ. Traditionally the pelvic floor has been divided into compartments; anterior, middle, and posterior; with each part being looked after by a separate group of surgeons (urologists, gynaecologists and coloproctologists). This has often led to multiple procedures at different times and the patient’s problems rarely being addressed as a whole, but as separate parts.
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- Foreword
- Preface
- Contributors list
- Chapter 1 Establishing and developing a pelvic floor service: the multidisciplinary team and the approach to patient assessment
- Chapter 2 Radiological workup
- Chapter 3 Anorectal physiology
- Chapter 4 Faecal incontinence: a pathophysiological approach
- Chapter 5 Obstructed defaecation: a pathophysiological approach
- Chapter 6 Chronic anorectal pain: a pathophysiological approach
- Chapter 7 Conservative treatment of pelvic floor disorders
- Chapter 8 Three compartments–working with a multidisciplinary team
- Chapter 9 Internal rectal prolapse
- Chapter 10 Anismus
- Chapter 11 Rectocele
- Chapter 12 Solitary rectal ulcer syndrome (SRUS)
- Chapter 13 Slow transit constipation
- Chapter 14 Perineoproctology (fissures and haemorrhoids)
- Chapter 15 Pudendal pain syndrome
- Chapter 16 Obstetric sphincter injury
- Chapter 17 Rectal sensory dysfunction
- Chapter 18 Laparoscopic ventral rectopexy (with posterior colporraphy and vaginal sacrocolpopexy)
- Chapter 19 STARR and Transtar
- Chapter 20 Complete pelvic floor ultrasound
- Chapter 21 Sacral neuromodulation
- Chapter 22 Anal bulking
- Chapter 23 Anterior sphincter repair
- Chapter 24 Neosphincters and artificial sphincters for treating faecal incontinence
- Index