Anal Fissure Symptoms, Diagnosis and Therapies /

• Main Authors: Wienert, Volker (Author), Raulf, Franz (Author), Mlitz, Horst (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Dermatology.; Gynecology.; Gastroenterology.; Nursing.; Rectum > Surgery.; Urology.; Medicine & Public Health.; Colorectal Surgery.

This highly informative monograph offers a comprehensive and interdisciplinary reference for the management and treatment of the whole spectrum of painful tears in the anus and anal canal. Based upon a systematic review of all relevant papers on the topic starting from 1865, the book deals with the...

Table of Contents:

• 1 Anatomy
• 2 Chronic Anal Fissure
• 3 Secondary Anal Fissure
• 4 Problems of Defining Chronic Anal Fissure
• 5. Epidemiology and Etiopathogenesis
• 6 Signs and Symptoms
• 7 Prevention and Quality of life in Anal Fissure
• 8 Diagnostics and Differential diagnostics
• 9 Historical aspects and Anal Fissure Pathology
• 10 Therapy for Acute Anal Fissure
• 11 Therapy for Chronic Anal Fissure
• 12 Medical Position Statement
• Appendix.