When patients present with the symptom of fecal incontinence but on examination they have normal anal sphincters, this can present a diagnostic puzzle. How can this patient complain of incontinence when they have a normal anus?? There are at least five situations where this can happen. Here these five situations are discussed

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What Conditions Cause Fecal Incontinence in the Presence of Normal Anal Sphincters?

  • James M. Church

摘要

When patients present with the symptom of fecal incontinence but on examination they have normal anal sphincters, this can present a diagnostic puzzle. How can this patient complain of incontinence when they have a normal anus?? There are at least five situations where this can happen. Here these five situations are discussed