title: [Surgery of anal fistulas].
abstract: The authors report a study on 120 patients with anal fistula (111 males and 9 females). The average age was 44.3 years (median 44, SD +/- 14.807). 64.1% of patients had an intersphincteric fistula, 23.3% hanal transphincteric fistula, 1.6% a suprasphincteric fistula, 7.5% a horseshoe fistula and the 3.3% an extrasphincteric fistula. We treated 14 patients (11.66%) with direct surgical treatment. The other 106 had various types of treatment depending on the localisation and the involvement of the anorectal sphincter. We had 11 cases (9.1%) of complications, such as recurrence in 5 patients (4.1%) transitory incontinence in 2 cases (1.6%) and finally postoperative bleeding in 3 patients (2.5%).
authors.affiliation: Dipartimento di Chirurgia, Università degli Studi, Modena.
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Ricchi
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Carriero
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Spallanzani
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Fundarò
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Heydari
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Piccoli
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Gelmini
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011183:Postoperative Complications; D012003:Rectal Fistula / Q000145:classification / Q000601:surgery*; D012008:Recurrence