[New diagnostic and therapeutic directions in so-called essential anorectal pain]

The authors report a study of 40 patients affected with "essential" ano-rectal neuralgia. It manifests itself by frequent urinary disorders discovered most of the time at the interview of the patient and emphasizes in many cases the presence of psychosomatic disorders. This study has also demonstrated frequent abnormalities of laboratory tests including: chlamydiae serology, urethral samplings and cyto-bacteriological examination of urine looking for: chlamydiae, ureaplasma urealyticum, mycoplasma hominis and common urinary infections. Results of the treatment seemed completely favorable but should be confirmed by a long-term analysis.