Randomized, Prospective Trial Comparing 0.2 Percent Isosorbide Dinitrate Ointment with Sphincterotomy in Treatment of Chronic Anal Fissure: A Two-Year Follow-up

Diseases of the Colon and Rectum

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 437-443

  Parellada, Carlos ^a,b  

^a Hospital General San Juan de Dios Guatemala   (Guatemala)

^b Clinica 705   (Guatemala)

Author keywords

Anal fissure; Internal sphincterotomy; Isosorbide dinitrate; Nitroglycerine ointment

Indexed keywords

ISOSORBIDE DINITRATE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANORECTAL PRESSURE; ANUS FISSURE; ARTICLE; BURNING SENSATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVICE; DIZZINESS; FECES INCONTINENCE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEADACHE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SIDE EFFECT; SPHINCTEROTOMY; ULCER HEALING;

ADMINISTRATION, TOPICAL; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANAL CANAL; FECAL INCONTINENCE; FEMALE; FISSURE IN ANO; HUMANS; ISOSORBIDE DINITRATE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASODILATOR AGENTS; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 1842422131     PISSN: 00123706     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10350-003-0090-x     Document Type: Article

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