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This highly informative monograph offers a comprehensive and interdisciplinary reference for the management and treatment of the whole spectrum of painful tears in the anus and anal canal. Based upon a systematic review of all relevant papers on the topic starting from 1865, the book deals with the primary anal fissure, acute and chronic - with a new definition of the latter one provided - , and the secondary anal fissure in every detail, particularly its medical history , etiology , signs and symptoms , medical findings , therapy and its evaluation, differential diagnosis. It also covers all available evidence based therapeutic strategies. This book will appeal to a wide readership, from proctologists and surgeons through gynecologists, to urologists, dermatologists and gastroenterologists.

Medicine. --- Dermatology. --- Gynecology. --- Gastroenterology. --- Nursing. --- Rectum --- Urology. --- Medicine & Public Health. --- Colorectal Surgery. --- Surgery. --- Anus --- Diseases. --- Diseases --- Diagnosis. --- Treatment. --- Anal sphincter --- Sphincters --- Proctology --- Colon (Anatomy) --- Clinical nursing --- Nurses and nursing --- Nursing process --- Care of the sick --- Medicine --- Internal medicine --- Digestive organs --- Skin --- Genitourinary organs --- Gynaecology --- Generative organs, Female --- Rectum—Surgery . --- Gynecology . --- Gastroenterology .