The treatment of anal fissure by lateral subcutaneous internal sphincterotomy—A technique and results
✍ Scribed by M. J. Notaras
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1971
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 525 KB
- Volume
- 58
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0007-1323
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## Summary Seventy-one consecutive patients with acute anal fissure were randomly allocated to treatment by lateral subcutaneous sphincterotomy under either local anaesthesia (n=34) or general anaesthesia (n=37). Four months after treatment there were 18 patients with a recurrent or persistent anal