Botulinum toxin and anal fissure: Efficacy and safety systematic review

International Journal of Colorectal Disease

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 1-9

  Yiannakopoulou, Eugenia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WEST ATTICA   (Greece)

Author keywords

Anal fissure; Botulinum toxin; Chemical sphincterotomy; Efficacy; Lateral internal sphincterotomy; Safety

Indexed keywords

BOTULINUM TOXIN; BOTULINUM TOXIN A; DILTIAZEM; GLYCERYL TRINITRATE; ISOSORBIDE DINITRATE; LIDOCAINE; PLACEBO;

ANAL FISSURECTOMY; ANUS FISSURE; ANUS SURGERY; CHRONIC ANUS FISSURE; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); DRUG DOSAGE FORM COMPARISON; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG MEGADOSE; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG TOLERABILITY; FECES INCONTINENCE; FLATULENCE; FOURNIER GANGRENE; HEMATOMA; HEMORRHOID; HEMORRHOID PROLAPSE; HUMAN; INJECTION SITE; INJECTION SITE PAIN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LATERAL INTERNAL SPHINCTEROTOMY; LONG TERM CARE; LOW DRUG DOSE; MONOTHERAPY; PERIANAL ABSCESS; PERIANAL HEMATOMA; PERIANAL PAIN; PERIANAL THROMBOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RECURRENT DISEASE; RETREATMENT; REVIEW; SHORT COURSE THERAPY; SPHINCTEROTOMY; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; THROMBOSIS; TREATMENT FAILURE;

BOTULINUM TOXINS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FISSURE IN ANO; HUMANS; LIDOCAINE; NITRATES; PLACEBOS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 84857039537     PISSN: 01791958     EISSN: 14321262     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00384-011-1286-5     Document Type: Review

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