Pediatric ano-rectal necrosis

so ANO RECTAL ANOMALIES

This description is mainly based on experience gained at Great Ormond Street over the past nine years-about 300 cases having been admitted. It owes much to the teaching of Denis Browne. The classification of Ladd and Gross (I934) into four types has been abandoned because it did not seem to give useful grouping of cases with similar origins, treatment or prognosis. A classification has been dev...

Causes of ano-rectal bleeding.

Introduction Ano-rectal bleeding is a common symptom which may be associated with local conditions such as haemorrhoids and fissures but may also be the presenting symptom with neoplasia, diverticular disease or inflammatory disease of the colon or rectum. Many patients with rectal or colonic disease have associated symptoms such as change of bowel habit or loss of weight, and it is uncertain h...

Ano-rectal Anomalies: Physiological Considerations.

We have used a classification of ano-rectal anomalies following the concepts of Keith (1908), Stephens (1953a, b), Browne (1955) and Bill and Johnson (1958), as described elsewhere (Nixon, 1961). The low anomalies in which the 'anus' or 'fistula' is below the puborectalis present few serious problems. The main groups are the covered and ectopic anus, and continence is achieved by adequately enl...

Synopsis of Ano-Rectal Diseases

SYNOPSIS OF ANO-RECTAL DISEASES. By Louis J. Hirschman. C. V. Mosby Company, St. Louis, 1937. 288 pp. $3.50. This is a synopsis of the author's Handbook on Diseases of the Anus and Rectum which has been one of the standard texts on the subject for nearly thirty years. The purpose of this work is to make available to the student and general practitioner a condensed version of that authoritative ...

Synopsis of Ano-Rectal Diseases