[Dextranomer in the postoperative of anorectal surgery]

Twenty patients were treated with the usual hemorrhoidectomy and fistulectomy techniques; from the nature of the region it was assumed that the postoperative wounds developed infection. Dextranomer was applied locally on 10 patients and the other 10 served as controls. It was observed that the medicament was easy to apply and the patient adapted himself to it quickly enough; none of the group under study presented collateral effects which might contraindicate its use. The healing period was considerably reduced in the problem-group and the patients went back to their usual tasks before expected. Photographic series were taken from all of them during postoperative days until healing. There were not complications in any of the groups under study.