Long term outcomes after lateral anal sphincterotomy for anal fissure: A retrospective cohort study

Surgery Today

Volumn 44, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1032-1039

  Davies, Ioseff ^a   Dafydd, Llinos ^a   Davies, Leigh ^a   Beynon, John ^a  

^a SINGLETON HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Fecal incontinence; Fissure in ano; Operative; Surgical procedures

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANUS FISSURE; ARTICLE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLEVELAND CONTINENCE SCORE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLOSTOMY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; FECES INCONTINENCE; FEMALE; GOLD STANDARD; HUMAN; MALE; MULTIPARA; PATIENT SELECTION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RISK FACTOR; SCORING SYSTEM; SPHINCTEROTOMY; SURGICAL RISK; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERY ELDERLY; WOUND HEALING; ABDOMINAL SURGERY; ANAL CANAL; COHORT ANALYSIS; FECAL INCONTINENCE; FISSURE IN ANO; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROCEDURES; QUESTIONNAIRE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK; SURGERY; TIME; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANAL CANAL; COHORT STUDIES; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM SURGICAL PROCEDURES; FECAL INCONTINENCE; FEMALE; FISSURE IN ANO; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; QUESTIONNAIRES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84901307747     PISSN: 09411291     EISSN: 14362813     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00595-013-0785-0     Document Type: Article

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