Conservative versus surgical treatment for chronic anal idiopathic fissure: A prospective randomized trial

Updates in Surgery

Volumn 65, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 197-200

  De Rosa, Michele ^a   Cestaro, Giovanni ^a   Vitiello, Chiara ^a   Massa, Salvatore ^a   Gentile, Maurizio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

Chronic anal fissure; Nifedipine lidocaine ointment; Sphincterotomy

Indexed keywords

NIFEDIPINE; VASODILATOR AGENT;

ABDOMINAL SURGERY; ANAL CANAL; ANUS FISSURE; ARTICLE; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFECATION; DRUG EFFECT; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; OINTMENT; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TOPICAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND HEALING;

ADMINISTRATION, TOPICAL; ANAL CANAL; CHRONIC DISEASE; DEFECATION; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM SURGICAL PROCEDURES; FISSURE IN ANO; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; NIFEDIPINE; OINTMENTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASODILATOR AGENTS; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 84883596639     PISSN: 2038131X     EISSN: 20383312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13304-013-0217-0     Document Type: Article

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