Abstract
Surgery for fecal incontinence started with the Parks’ postanal repair and has now diversified into a variety of measures to improve anorectal function. However, two questions for imaging to answer remain: is the sphincter intact and what is the quality of the sphincteric muscle?
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Bartram, C.I. (2010). Invited Commentary. In: Santoro, G.A., Wieczorek, A.P., Bartram, C.I. (eds) Pelvic Floor Disorders. Springer, Milano. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-88-470-1542-5_39
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