Are non-surgical treatments for anal fissure effective?

Canadian Family Physician

Volumn 46, Issue MAY, 2000, Pages 1063-1065

  Steele, Leah S ^a,b   Glazier, Rick ^a,b  

^a ST MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOTULINUM TOXIN; GLYCERYL TRINITRATE;

ANUS FISSURE; ANUS SPHINCTER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFECATION; ENTERITIS; HEADACHE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INJECTION SITE; RECTUM HEMORRHAGE; SHORT SURVEY; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; SPHINCTEROTOMY; SYPHILIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUBERCULOSIS;

ADMINISTRATION, TOPICAL; ADULT; ANTI-DYSKINESIA AGENTS; BOTULINUM TOXINS; FEMALE; FISSURE IN ANO; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, SUBCUTANEOUS; MALE; NITROGLYCERIN; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASODILATOR AGENTS;

EID: 0034044485     PISSN: 0008350X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Short Survey

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