Congenital Abnormalities of the Anus and Rectum

Familial incidence of congenital abnormalities of the anus and rectum.

Congenital abnormalities of the anus and rectum are among the rarer congenital anomalies, the incidence being variously given as one in five thousand to one in ten thousand live births (Dmytryk, 1945). Murphy (1947) in Philadelphia in his study of 890 dead children with diagnoses of gross congenital malformations and consequent assessment of their families with an addition of forty-five cases, ...

Congenital abnormalities of anus and rectum: mortality and function.

[Congenital anomalies of the anus and rectum].

There is confusion in the minds ofmany clinicians about the exact anatomical features of the individual lesions of anorectal anomalies and therefore about the way in which they should be treated. This arises partly because some, like the covered anus, are visible in the perineum, whereas in others part of the anomaly is visible, for example, in a low vaginal fistula, but the more important part...

Congenital deformities of the anus and the rectum.

One of the regular methods of progression in medicine is by the analysis of large vaguely assorted groups of cases into smaller and exactly defined categories. The process consists in a mixture of observation, abstract reasoning and experiment. As instances of this the work of Hamilton Russell (1922) may be quoted, when by a combination of observation and abstract reasoning he established the e...

Diseases of the Rectum and Anus

F.R.C.S., and F. Swinford Edwards, F.R.C.S. Second edition. Pp. xix., 324. London: J. & A. Churchill. 1892. The surgery of the rectum has undergone considerable development during late years, and books that were written some years ago have to undergo much alteration to bring them UP to date. The present edition has been carefully revised by the authors, and includes the most approved modern met...