Results following conservative lateral sphincteromy for the treatment of chronic anal fissures

Colorectal Disease

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 311-314

  Garcea, Giuseppe ^a   Sutton, C ^a   Mansoori, S ^a   Lloyd, T ^a   Thomas, M ^a  

^a LEICESTER GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anal fissure; Chronic; Lateral sphincterotomy; Surgical treatment

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; LAXATIVE;

ADULT; ANUS FISSURE; ANUS SPHINCTER; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; FECES INCONTINENCE; FEMALE; FLATULENCE; FOLLOW UP; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTPATIENT; PAIN; POSTAL MAIL; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPHINCTEROTOMY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND HEALING;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANAL CANAL; CHRONIC DISEASE; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM SURGICAL PROCEDURES; FECAL INCONTINENCE; FEMALE; FISSURE IN ANO; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0038301828     PISSN: 14628910     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1463-1318.2003.00465.x     Document Type: Article

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