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There were 174 children with symptoms of fissure. One hundred seventeen had active lesions. Fifty-seven had been described as “postfissure” patients. In all, 141 were reached in follow up studies varying from one to 161/2 years after treatment; 136 were cured (one by operation); only five still had bowel symptoms, none of which were pathognomonic of fissure.
Gould defines a syndrome as a set of symptoms which occur together, the sum of signs of any morbid state. I believe that the 57 patients wthout active lesions presented a postfissure syndrome probably understood by all of us but as yet unnamed.
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Read at the meeting of the American Proctologic Society, Atlantic City, New Jersey, June 15 to 17, 1959.
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Ellison, F.S. Anal fissure occurring in infants and children. Dis Colon Rectum 3, 161–164 (1960). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02616550
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