encopresis
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Encopresis () is voluntary or involuntary passage of feces outside of toilet-trained contexts (fecal soiling) in children who are four years or older and after an organic cause has been excluded. Children with encopresis often leak stool into their undergarments.
Key facts
- Medical condition (new).name
- Encopresis
- Medical condition (new).synonyms
- Paradoxical diarrhea
- Medical condition (new).field
- Psychiatry, Clinical Psychology, Pediatrics
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Research
935 papers- Encopresis.Current opinion in pediatrics · 2002
- Encopresis.Indian journal of pediatrics · 1999
- Encopresis.Pediatrics in review · 2010
- Encopresis and soiling.Pediatric clinics of North America · 1996
- [Encopresis in children, the view of child psychiatry].Revue medicale de Liege · 2023
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Wikidata facts
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- symptom or sign
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- health specialty
- psychology
- ICPC 2 ID
- P13
- NCI Thesaurus ID
- C92568
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Signs and symptoms
- Causes
- Diagnosis
- Treatment
- Epidemiology
- References
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Encopresis () is voluntary or involuntary passage of feces outside of toilet-trained contexts (fecal soiling) in children who are four years or older and after an organic cause has been excluded. Children with encopresis often leak stool into their undergarments.
This term is usually applied to children, and where the symptom is present in adults, it is more commonly known as fecal incontinence (including fecal soiling, fecal leakage or fecal seepage).
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