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Perineal wound healing after proctectomy for carcinoma and inflammatory disease

✍ Scribed by Phillipe Baudot; Michael R. B. Keighley; John Alexander-Williams

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
Year: 1980
Tongue: English
Weight: 183 KB
Volume: 67
Category: Article
ISSN: 0007-1323
DOI: 10.1002/bjs.1800670415

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Summary

The rate of wound healing after proctectomy was assessed in a series of 105 patients. Early healing was dependent principally on the primary diagnosis, to a lesser extent on faecal contamination and was not related to steroid administration. Early healing (within 3 months) occurred in 72 per cent of patients undergoing operation for cancer and 45 per cent of these operated on for ulcerative or Crohn's colitis.

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Abstract The rate of perineal wound healing was assessed in a series of 112 patients undergoing proctectomy for Crohn's colitis. Healing was impaired in patients with a high fistula-in-ano or a rectovaginal fistula pre-operatively, faecal contamination and postoperative perineal sepsis. Early healin