Etiology and therapy of chronic anal fissure;Ätiologie und therapie der chronischen analfissur

Coloproctology

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 16-22

  Wittmer, Almut ^a   Wittmer, Axel ^a   Winkler, Rainer ^a   Heusermann, Ulrich ^b  

^a Martin Luther Krankenhaus   (Germany)

^b Institut für Pathologie Evang luth Diakonissenanstalt zu Flensburg   (Germany)

Author keywords

Anal incontinence; Chronic anal fissure; Fissurectomy; Lateral internal sphincterotomy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANUS FISSURE; ANUS FISTULA; ANUS SPHINCTER; ANUS SURGERY; ARTICLE; CONVALESCENCE; FECES INCONTINENCE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PELVIS FLOOR; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RECURRENT DISEASE;

EID: 0347296106     PISSN: 01742442     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00053-003-5085-5     Document Type: Article

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