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A New Seton Type for the Treatment of Anal Fistula

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In this retrospective study, our aim was to introduce an industrial synthetic material that can be used as a seton and then to present the results of complicated anal fistula cases treated with this different sort of seton. Between 1997 and 2005, 32 patients (aged 27–63 years) with a high anal or rectal internal opening were treated with a cutting seton. In the postoperative period none of the patients had recurrence or solid stool incontinence. However, three of them had just flatus incontinence, and two had flatus and liquid stool incontinence. The new material we used as a new type of seton can be used efficiently; it can be inserted easily, is cheap and effective, and may give better therapeutic results and better patient satisfaction.

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  1. Department of General Surgery, Meram Faculty of Medicine, Selçuk University, Konya, Turkey

    Celalettin Vatansev, Ahmet Tekin, Faruk Aksoy, Hüseyin Yılmaz, Tevfik Kücükkartallar & Ahmet Pamukcu

  2. Department of General Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Cukurova University, Adana, Turkey

    Ömer Alabaz & Tolga Akcam

  3. Selçuk Üniversitesi Meram Tıp Fakültesi, Genel Cerrahi Anabilim Dalı, Akyokuş, 42080, Konya, Turkey

    Celalettin Vatansev

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Part of this work was presented at the 40th Congress of the European Society for Surgical Research (ESSR) in Konya, Turkey, May 2005.

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Vatansev, C., Alabaz, Ö., Tekin, A. et al. A New Seton Type for the Treatment of Anal Fistula. Dig Dis Sci 52, 1920–1923 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10620-007-9793-5

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