Practice parameters for the management of anal fissures (3rd Revision)

Diseases of the Colon and Rectum

Volumn 53, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1110-1115

  Perry, W Brian ^a   Dykes, Sharon L ^a   Rafferty, W Donald ^a   Rafferty, Janice F ^a  

^a Rectal Surgeons   (Australia)

Author keywords

Anal fissure; Fissure in ano; Sphincterotomy

Indexed keywords

ANESTHETIC AGENT; ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; BOTULINUM TOXIN; BULKING AGENT; CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKING AGENT; GLYCERYL TRINITRATE; GONYAUTOXIN; ISPAGULA; NITRIC ACID DERIVATIVE; NITRIC OXIDE DONOR;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ANUS CARCINOMA; ANUS FISSURE; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLON SURGERY; CROHN DISEASE; DRUG DOSE ESCALATION; DRUG INDUCED HEADACHE; DRUG TREATMENT FAILURE; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FECES INCONTINENCE; HEALING; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; PAIN; PATIENT CARE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; RECTUM HEMORRHAGE; RECTUM SURGERY; REVIEW; SKIN DISEASE; SPHINCTEROTOMY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SYPHILIS; TUBERCULOSIS; ARTICLE; FEMALE; MALE; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; PLASTIC SURGERY; STANDARD;

COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; FISSURE IN ANO; HUMANS; MALE; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES;

EID: 77956243209     PISSN: 00123706     EISSN: 15300358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/DCR.0b013e3181e23dfe     Document Type: Review

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