Bleeding anorectal varices--a misunderstood condition
Hosking, S.W.; Johnson, A.G.
Surgery 104(1): 70-73
1988
ISSN/ISBN: 0039-6060 PMID: 3260411 Document Number: 314847
The management of 13 patients who had bleeding anorectal varices is described and compared with the 20 cases reported to date. The diagnostic procedure of choice is anorectoscopy. Treatment by an under-running suture achieved primary control of bleeding in all patients, and during a median follow-up of 7 months (range, 1 to 36), two early and one late episodes of rebleeding occurred. As all patients had varices in the anal canal with only occasional extension into the rectum, the term "anorectal varices" is to be preferred.