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Published on: April 17, 2019
[X-ray study in the examination of patients with perineal fistulas]
A Tikhonov1, A Kuz'minov, N Poletov
1State Coloproctology Research Center, Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation.
Abstract:
The paper discusses whether X-ray study of patients with perineal fistulas is required and justified. The main reason is that there is a diversity of diseases which display the same signs as paraproctitis. Of 426 examinees, perineal fistulas were mainly caused by chronic paraproctitis in 85% and by other various diseases showing the similar symptoms in 15%. The basic studies of these patients included fistulography made in 300 patients with external fistulas and proctofistulography performed in 126 patients with incomplete internal fistulas. Comparing the data of X-ray study with those of clinical and morphological ones showed the sensitivity of the former to be 94.5%. Based on the results of their own observations, the authors defined indications for fistulography or proctofistulography. In addition to the analysis of the findings, they present the main points of differential X-ray diagnosis of different diseases manifested by perineal fistulas.
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