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This open access book describes the latest advances in the diagnosis and treatment of anal incontinence. Anal incontinence is a devastating condition that heavily impacts on the patients’ lives. Those suffering from this disorder are generally highly embarrassed and reluctant to undergo appropriate clinical evaluation, thus becoming more isolated and worsening their quality of life. Fortunately, a wide range of treatments are now available to improve this distressing condition; however, recognition of the related pathophysiological alterations is mandatory to ensure its successful management. This volume will help the surgical community to keep abreast of developments in the diagnostics and treatment of anal incontinence, while providing all health professionals with the appropriate tools needed to manage patients with this disabling condition.

Surgery. --- Gastroenterology. --- Urology. --- Neurophysiology. --- Radiology. --- Nutrition. --- Continence mechanism --- Fecal incontinence --- Pelviperineal disorders --- Anal sphincter --- Continence Surgery

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Soft-tissue reconstruction for a variety of surgical conditions, such as abdominal wall hernia, hiatal hernia, stomal hernia, anal fistula and pelvic floor replacement remains a challenge. There is an insufficient level of high-quality evidence in the literature on the value of bioprosthetics for soft-tissue reconstruction. An expanded knowledge about their clinical efficacy is urgently needed.

Soft-tissue reconstruction --- biological graft --- complications --- fistula --- incisional hernia --- systematic review --- hernia --- biological mesh --- anal sphincter repair --- bio-absorbable mesh --- Soft-tissue reconstruction --- biological graft --- complications --- fistula --- incisional hernia --- systematic review --- hernia --- biological mesh --- anal sphincter repair --- bio-absorbable mesh

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Soft-tissue reconstruction for a variety of surgical conditions, such as abdominal wall hernia, hiatal hernia, stomal hernia, anal fistula and pelvic floor replacement remains a challenge. There is an insufficient level of high-quality evidence in the literature on the value of bioprosthetics for soft-tissue reconstruction. An expanded knowledge about their clinical efficacy is urgently needed.

Soft-tissue reconstruction --- biological graft --- complications --- fistula --- incisional hernia --- systematic review --- hernia --- biological mesh --- anal sphincter repair --- bio-absorbable mesh

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This book provides a concise yet comprehensive summary of the current status of the field that guides patient management and stimulate investigative efforts. It is an easy reference for day-to-day anorectal pathology.  The text reviews new testing procedures for anorectal diseases and provides new treatment options about anorectal disease both benign and malignant.  All chapters are written by experts in their fields and include the most up-to-date scientific and clinical information. The text includes highly practical presentations of typical patients seen in the clinical practice of proctology in the form of case presentations with expert analysis and commentary.  Example cases would include common but challenging cases such as an anal tumor, chronic anal pain and anal discharge.         Anorectal Disease: Contemporary Management is a comprehensive, state-of-the-art review of this field and serves as a valuable resource for residents,  clinicians, surgeons and researchers with an interest anorectal disease.

Surgery - General and By Type --- Surgery & Anesthesiology --- Health & Biological Sciences --- Anus --- Rectum --- Surgery. --- Diseases --- Treatment. --- Anal sphincter --- Sphincters --- Colon (Anatomy) --- Gastroenterology. --- Emergency medicine. --- Colorectal Surgery. --- Primary Care Medicine. --- Medicine, Emergency --- Medicine --- Critical care medicine --- Disaster medicine --- Medical emergencies --- Internal medicine --- Digestive organs --- Rectum—Surgery . --- Gastroenterology . --- Primary care (Medicine). --- Primary medical care --- Medical care

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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 .