Surgical treatment of fecal incontinence in children
Isakov, I.F.; Stepanov, E.A.; Smirnov, A.N.; Kostomarova, G.A.; Poddubnyĭ, I.V.; Tikhomirova, L.I.; Mannanov, A.G.
Khirurgiia 4: 45-48
2000
ISSN/ISBN: 0023-1207 PMID: 10800312 Document Number: 512525
The experience of the faeces incontinence treatment in 295 children (age ranged from 1 to 15 years) is presented. Several original operations for surgical correction of the sphincter ani asthenia are proposed. The authors think that radical correction of faeces incontinence in children is necessary as early as at the age 6 to 7 years that is at the beginning of social activity. Efficient use of the above methods of the rectum closing apparatus creation allowed to achieve good results in 77.3-85.7% of the children.