Experience with anal stretch in treatment of piles.
Fifty patients in two groups of twenty-five were treated with anal stretch and standard haemorrhoidectomy operation. Thy were followed up for six months. Anal stretch patients had less pain and post operative stay in hospital was minimal (3 days). They also returned to work much earlier. No complications occured in either group. It is felt that the anal stretch method is the preferable of the two.
D000328:Adult; D001003:Anal Canal; D004106:Dilatation; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006484:Hemorrhoids / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D015024:Zambia