Randomized clinical trial of transcutaneous electrical posterior tibial nerve stimulation versus lateral internal sphincterotomy for treatment of chronic anal fissure

International Journal of Surgery

Volumn 22, Issue , 2015, Pages 143-148

  Youssef, Tamer ^a   Youssef, Mohamed ^a   Thabet, Waleed ^a   Lotfy, Ahmed ^a   Shaat, Reham ^a   Abd Elrazek, Eman ^a   Farid, Mohamed ^a  

^a MANSOURA UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Chronic anal fissure; Lateral internal sphincterotomy; Sacral nerve stimulation; Transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANAL CANAL; ANAL CANAL LENGTH; ANORECTAL PRESSURE; ANUS FISSURE; ARTICLE; CHRONIC ANAL FISSURE; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMPARATIVE EFFECTIVENESS; CONSTIPATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM DISEASE ASSESSMENT; FECES INCONTINENCE; FEMALE; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; INTESTINE PARAMETERS; LATERAL INTERNAL SPHINCTEROTOMY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PAIN; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PEASCATORI ANAL INCONTINENCE SCORE; PERIANAL HEMATOMA; POSTERIOR TIBIAL NERVE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUALITY OF LIFE INDEX; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; SPHINCTEROTOMY; TRANSCUTANEOUS ELECTRICAL POSTERIOR TIBIAL NERVE STIMULATION; TRANSCUTANEOUS NERVE STIMULATION; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE; ABDOMINAL SURGERY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPLICATION; FECAL INCONTINENCE; FISSURE IN ANO; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRESSURE; PROCEDURES; QUALITY OF LIFE; TIBIAL NERVE; TRANSCUTANEOUS ELECTRICAL NERVE STIMULATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND HEALING; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AGED; ANAL CANAL; CHRONIC DISEASE; CONSTIPATION; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM SURGICAL PROCEDURES; FECAL INCONTINENCE; FEMALE; FISSURE IN ANO; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PRESSURE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUALITY OF LIFE; RECURRENCE; TIBIAL NERVE; TRANSCUTANEOUS ELECTRIC NERVE STIMULATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND HEALING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84943539854     PISSN: 17439191     EISSN: 17439159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijsu.2015.08.033     Document Type: Article

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