OBJECTIVE The purpose of the present study was to compare early post-operative complications and length of hospital stay of hemorrhoidectomy patients between those who had and had not received metronidazole perioperatively. RESEARCH DESIGN Retrospective, matched pair case-control study. MATERIAL AND METHOD Medical records of all hemorrhoidal patients hospitalized between January 2000 and De...

BACKGROUND The stapled hemorrhoidopexy (SH) is a procedure for prolapse and hemorrhoids . At first SH seemed to be a good alternative for the Milligan Morgan (MM) hemorrhoidectomy and preliminary results in early 2000 confirmed it. However, further studies and evaluation of long-term results showed poorer outcomes. OBJECTIVES This study aimed to evaluate and compare the results of these 2 sur...