[Rubber band ligation. Ambulatory treatment of hemorroids (author's transl)]

The rubber ligation, ambulatory treatment of hemorroids due to J. Barron, consists in the strangulation of hemorroidal packs by an elastric ring, assuring the destruction by ischemic necrosis. Widely spread in France since 1968, the treatment forms the subject of a retrospective enquiry among 30 french proctologists, after ten years of experiment. It bears on 1074 patients and 4122 ligatures. The prolapsus disappeared in 60% of the cases and disminished in 32%. The hemorragies have stopped in 69% and these results go on beyond four years in 87% of the cases. Less heterogenous statistics and more precise indications would improve these results which, however, confirm the efficience of the treatment.