Anal tuberculosis: A non–Healing anal lesion

Tuberculosis and Anal Fistula

Anal fistulae are of common occurrence and represent a large percentage of the diseases of the rectum and anus. Khanna and Waryam (1955) reviewed 1,000 cases of the diseases of rectum and anus attending out-patients department and found that 14.7% were of anal fistula. However, when we consider the admission to the in-patients’ department we find a different picture viz. the total number of cas...

Anal warts and anal coitus.

Anal Incontinence and Obstetric Anal Sphincter Tears

PURPOSE: To evaluate the prevalence of anal incontinence (AI) in primiparous women five years after their first delivery; to investigate if an 8-12 hour time delay of primary repair affects AI at 1-year follow-up; to study the association between endoanal ultrasonography and anorectal manometry in relation to AI in primiparous women; to evaluate whether an endoanal ultrasonographic derived sphi...

Anal lesion resulting from implantation of viable tumour cells in a pre-existing anal fistula. A case report.

Colorectal cancer exfoliates cancer cells into the lumen of the bowel, and possibly, raw bowel mucosa should provide a good medium for the exfoliated cancer cells. We report an extremely rare case of a sigmoid carcinoma metastasizing to a low fistula in ano. The patient was operated on for a fistula in ano. Biopsy demonstrated a moderate differentiated adenocarcinoma. Thereafter, sigmoidoscopy ...

Relationship between anal symptoms and anal findings

BACKGROUND The frequencies and types of anal symptoms were compared with the frequencies and types of benign anal diseases (BAD). METHODS Patients transferred from GPs, physicians or gynaecologists for anal and/or abdominal complaints/signs were enrolled and asked to complete a questionnaire about their symptoms. Proctologic assessment was performed in the knee-chest position. Definitions of ...