title: [Constipation syndrome: methods for measuring the speed of intestinal transit].
abstract: In the present article, I remind what I presented, in a symposium performed in our Society on the constipation syndrome, in relation with the definition and the determinant factors of this syndrome, and, in addition, with the methods we have created to determine physiologically the velocity of the intestinal transit, specially colonic.
authors.affiliation: Escuela de Postgrado en Medicina Víctor Alzamora Castro, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Perú.
authors.forename: Raúl
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: León-Barúa
mesh_terms: D003248:Constipation / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology / Q000503:physiopathology*; D003287:Contrast Media; D005772:Gastrointestinal Transit; D006801:Humans; D007458:Iodipamide; D011859:Radiography; D013577:Syndrome
chemical_list: D003287:Contrast Media; D007458:Iodipamide