THE NERVOUS RECTUM.

The Red Rectum (Carpet villous adenoma of the rectum)

Carpeted villous adenomas of rectum may be extensive and not suitable for transanal excision or Endoscopic mucosal resection. We present a case of such lesion extending from anorectal junction to rectosigmoid region. After biopsy and staging, this was managed by a sphincter saving procedure, i.e. a combination of transabdominal total mesorectal excision and transanal intersphincteric dissection...

Diseases of the Rectum

There is little in this book which is either new or untrue. At least half a dozen works on general surgery in the English language give better practical accounts of Diseases of the Rectum than this one. The language is rarely elegant, and often slovenly ; and we have marked many sentences as being grammatically deficient. There is a want of knowledge of the work of others which is by no means m...

Pain in the Rectum

INTRODUCTION. Pain is probably the most common symptom of lesions situated in the anorectal region. The anal canal is abundantly supplied with sensory nerves and lesions produce pain of varying severity. On the other hand, the sensory nerve supply of the rectum is poor and disease confined to this region may have progressed considerably before causing very much discomfort. This point is of impo...

Surgery of the Rectum

Prolapse of the Rectum.

PROLAPSE of the rectum is a rare, somewhat misunderstood and neglected condition, which is generally held to occur at the extremes of life. XVe are almost totally ignorant of its cause. Misconceptions regarding its clinical presentation are common. Its management is confused for the average surgeon-who sees relatively few of these cases-by the availability for its treatment of a multitude of me...