Fistulas and Fissures. Types, Symptoms, Causes, and Treatment

Description

In this book, the authors present current research in the study of the types, symptoms and treatments for fistulas and fissures. Topics include pancreatic fistulas; cutaneous advancement flap combined with tailored lateral internal sphincterotomy for chronic anal fissures; management of congenital fistulae; foot fissures in patients with diabetes; dialysis access-associated steal syndrome; anal fissures; advantage of surgical treatment for intracranial dural arteriovenous fistulas; pathogenesis of perianal fistulas in Crohn's disease; setons in treatment of anal fistulas; biliary fistulas; and arm fistulae and their creation. (Imprint: Nova Biomedical)

Table of Contents

Preface

Pancreatic Fistula
(Filip Cecka, Bohumil Jon, Department of Surgery, Medical Faculty and University Hospital Hradec Králové, Czech Republic)pp. 1-24

Cutaneous Advancement Flap Combined with “Tailored” Lateral Internal Sphincterotomy for Chronic Anal Fissure: Results from our Prospective Database and Review of the Literature
(George E. Theodoropoulos, Colorectal Unit, First Department of Propaedeutic Surgery, Athens Medical School, Athens, Greece)pp. 25-46

Recent Developments in the Management of Congenital Fistulae
(Costa Healy, Anies Mahomed, Royal Alexandra Children’s Hospital, Brighton, UK)pp. 47-62

Foot Fissures in Patients with Diabetes
(Makoto Oe, Takashi Nagase, Takeo Minematsu, Yumiko Ohashi, Takahumi Kadono, Kohjiro Ueki, Takashi Kadowaki, Hiromi Sanada, Departments of Gerontological Nursing/Wound Care Management, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, and others)pp. 63-78

Pancreatic Fistulae: Clinical Features, Diagnosis and Treatment
(Marcos Kutz, Juan Jose Vila, Silvia Goñi, Juan Carrascosa, Marta Basterra, Marta Gómez, Maria Luz Almendral, Hospital of Zumárraga, Spain, and others)pp. 79-96

Dialysis Access-Associated Steal Syndrome
(Huai-Min Chen, Ying-Fu Chen, Division of Cardiovascular Surgery, Department of Surgery, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, and others)pp. 97-112

Anal Fissure
(Joseph Lysy, Ariella Bar-Gil Shitrit, Digestive Disease Institute, Shaare Zedek Medical Center, Jerusalem, Affiliated to the Hebrew University Medical School, Israel)pp. 113-126

Advantage of Surgical Treatment for Intracranial Dural Arteriovenous Fistulas: Clinical Experience and Review of Literatures
(Naoki Kato, Toshihide Tanaka, Yuzuru Hasegawa, Toshiaki Abe, Department of Neurosurgery, Jikei University School of Medicine Kashiwa Hospital, Chiba, Japan, and others)pp. 127-140

Pathogenesis of Perianal Fistulas in Crohn’s Disease
(Am El-Tawil, Department of Surgery, University Hospital Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom)pp. 141-152

Setons in Treatment of Anal Fistula
(Gokulakkrishna Subhas, General Surgery, Providence Hospital and Medical Centers, Southfield, MI, USA)pp. 153-162

Biliary Fistulas
(Elham Dadzan, Chirag S. Desai, Raffaele Girlanda, Georgetown University Hospital, Department of Surgery, Washington DC, USA)pp. 163-172

Arm Fistulae and their Creation
(A. N. Hopper, C. Davies, Vascular Surgery, Morriston Hospital, Wales, UK)pp. 173-184

Index pp. 185-196