Current treatment options for fissure-in-ano

Journal Medical Libanais

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 33-38

  Gupta, Pravin J ^a  

^a Gupta Nursing Home   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOTULINUM TOXIN A; CINCHOCAINE; GLYCERYL TRINITRATE; INDORAMIN; ISOSORBIDE 5 NITRATE; ISOSORBIDE DINITRATE; KETANSERIN; LIDOCAINE; NIFEDIPINE; POLICRESULEN; PRILOCAINE; SOLCODERM;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ANKLE EDEMA; ANUS FISSURE; ANUS SURGERY; BALNEOTHERAPY; CAUTERIZATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIPLOPIA; DIZZINESS; DRUG EFFICACY; FECES INCONTINENCE; FLU LIKE SYNDROME; FLUSHING; HEADACHE; HEART PALPITATION; HUMAN; LASER SURGERY; NAUSEA; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SMELLING DISORDER; SPHINCTEROTOMY; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TASTE DISORDER; TOPICAL ANESTHESIA; TREATMENT INDICATION;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ADRENERGIC ALPHA-ANTAGONISTS; ADULT; ANAL CANAL; ANALGESICS; ANESTHETICS, LOCAL; BATHS; BOTULINUM TOXIN TYPE A; CHRONIC DISEASE; CRYOSURGERY; ENDOSCOPY; FEMALE; FISSURE IN ANO; HUMANS; INDORAMIN; INFORMED CONSENT; LASER SURGERY; MALE; NIFEDIPINE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PREGNANCY; RECURRENCE; SURGICAL FLAPS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASODILATOR AGENTS;

EID: 14644435793     PISSN: 00239852     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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