Treatment of chronic anal fissure by gonyautoxin

Colorectal Disease

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 619-624

  Garrido, R ^a   Lagos, N ^a   Lagos, M ^a   Rodriguez Navarro A J ^a,b   Garcia, C ^a   Truan, D ^a   Henriquez, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

^b HOSPITAL PADRE HURTADO   (Chile)

Author keywords

Chronic anal fissure; Gonyautoxin; Internal anal sphincter; New protocol treatment

Indexed keywords

BOTULINUM TOXIN; GONYAUTOXIN; LAXATIVE;

ADULT; AGED; ANAL COMPLAINT; ANALGESIC ACTIVITY; ANORECTAL PRESSURE; ANUS FISSURE; ARTICLE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONSTIPATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE TIME EFFECT RELATION; DRUG DOSE REGIMEN; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; FECES INCONTINENCE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALING; HUMAN; HYDROTHERAPY; MALE; MANOMETRY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PAINFUL DEFECATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; REMISSION; REST; SMOOTH MUSCLE RELAXATION; SPHINCTEROTOMY; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT;

ADULT; AGED; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; FISSURE IN ANO; HUMANS; MALE; MARINE TOXINS; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN; REMISSION INDUCTION; SAXITOXIN; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 34547856211     PISSN: 14628910     EISSN: 14631318     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1463-1318.2006.01183.x     Document Type: Article

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