title: [Results about the use of a silicone catheter in the stadiation of rectal mucosal prolapse and hemorrhoidal prolapse].
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Rectal mucosal prolapse was characterized by the protrusion of the mucosa alone in the rectal lumen. Hemorrhoidal prolapse is an extreme pathological condition oh haemorrhoidal disease. The Authors after an experience conducted in ambulatory patients have performed a technique for the staging of rectal mucosal prolapse and hemorrhoidal prolapse based on the use of an endorectal silicone catheter with a balloon in the extremity.
  
  
  METHODS
  A total of 40 patients with proctological symptoms during ambulatory visit has been submitted to a less invasive test in comparison to those traditional, using an endorectal silicone catheter with a balloon in the extremity, to insert in rectal lumen and to remove outside through the anus.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Only in 18 patients, the method gave the exact size of the prolapse and only 16 patients was able to accurately predict the reducibility or not. Of the 18 patients in 12 patients showed a mucosal prolapse was 50% of the circumference of the anal canal, in 6 patients showed a prolapse was between 50% and 75%. In 22 patients had been diagnosed with the absence of prolapse, then denied by the plug test that showed prolapse below the 50%.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The assessment of mucosal prolapse and hemorrhoidal prolapse through silicone catheter test has not proven better than the traditional plug test.
authors.affiliation: Dipartimenti di Chirurgia Generale e Trapianti d'Organo, Istituto Paride Stefanini, Universita' degli Studi di Roma, Roma, Italia. fagaj@tin.it
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Gaj
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Trecca
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Andreuccetti
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Crispino
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D057785:Catheters; D005260:Female; D006484:Hemorrhoids / Q000150:complications*; D006801:Humans; D007413:Intestinal Mucosa; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012005:Rectal Prolapse / Q000209:etiology* / Q000473:pathology*; D012720:Severity of Illness Index; D012828:Silicones; D055815:Young Adult
chemical_list: D012828:Silicones