Tuberculosis and Anal Fistula
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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 cases of the anorectal diseases admitted and treated over 51/2 years in the Professor of Surgery’s ward, V.J. Hospital, Amritsar show that out of 532 patients of anorectal diseases 160 were of anal fistulae, thus constituting 30.07% of anorectal diseases.
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