Treatment of anal fissure
Bensaude, A.
Phlebologie 33(4): 683-688
1980
ISSN/ISBN: 0031-8280 PMID: 7454838 Document Number: 156025
In order to understand fully the treatment of the anal fissure, a thorough knowledge of its pathogeny and clinical symptoms is necessary. The treatment involves special care where hygiene and diet are concerned, that is, regarding intestinal evacuation, and, in particular, constipation. The medical treatment consists of an eutrophic and healing medication. Treatment by physiotherapy, and especially diathermy, is hardly ever used now. As far as surgery is concerned, it consist, on sphincterotomy, either intracanal, or lateral and extramucous. Old or infected fissures must be removed.