Introduction– Open hemorrhoidectomy described by Milligan and Morgan is one of the common procedures done for hemorrhoids till date. Now a day’s rubber band ligations, radiofrequency ablation with plication, stapled hemorrhoidectomy are also being used. But these methods are not available in all centers. Some are costly too. There is also another method known as anal stretching and ligation ori...

cause she had been passing tarry stools for 2 days. Emergency endoscopy re− vealed an actively spurting Dieulafoy le− sion in the gastric fundus (l" Fig. 1). Be− cause of the technical difficulty of apply− ing hemoclips in this case we performed rubber−band ligation, which resulted in immediate hemostasis (l" Fig. 2). Twelve hours later, fresh blood reappeared in the nasogastric aspirate. A rep...

The band structure of a two-dimensional granular crystal composed of silicone rubber and polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) cylinders is investigated numerically. This system was previously shown to undergo a pattern transformation with uniaxial compression by Göncü et al. [Soft Matter 7, 2321 (2011)]. The dispersion relations of the crystal are computed at different levels of deformation to demons...

The proctoscopic diagnosis of haemorrhoids may be influenced by the surgeon's knowledge of the presence or absence of associated symptoms. In this study, an observer with no knowledge of the history, was used to check the surgeon's proctoscopic findings in 12 asymptomatic controls, and 24 symptomatic patients on 2 occasions, the latter group undergoing McGivney rubber band ligation. There was v...

PURPOSE The aim of this study was to compare the efficacy and safety of band ligation and injection sclerotherapy in the endoscopic treatment of children with variceal bleeding. METHODS The study population included 55 children, all of whom were treated at the time of endoscopic diagnosis of esophageal varices at Asan Medical Center, Seoul, Korea, between January 1994 and January 2011. The pr...

hronic haemorrhoidal symptoms secondary to internal haemorrhoids can be treated with several out-patients conservative procedures. On 1993 the American Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons proposed the rubber band ligation (RBL) as the treatment of choice for first and second degree haemorrhoids that are complicated with symptoms of bleeding and/or prolapse [1]. This procedure is simple, relati...