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Long-Term Outcomes of Surgery for Rectovaginal Fistula in 100 Consecutive Patients at a Tertiary Center

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Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery

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  1. Colorectal Unit, Department of Surgery, Grenoble Alpes University Hospital, F-38000, Grenoble, France

    Fawaz Abo-Alhassan, Bertrand Trilling, Pierre-Yves Sage, Fatah Tidadini, Edouard Girard & Jean-Luc Faucheron

  2. Department of Surgery, Dijon University Hospital, F-21000, Dijon, France

    Fawaz Abo-Alhassan

  3. UMR 5525, University Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, TIMC-IMAG, 38000, Grenoble, France

    Bertrand Trilling, Edouard Girard & Jean-Luc Faucheron

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Study conception and design were performed by Faucheron, Trilling, and Tidadini. Material preparation, data collection, and analysis were performed by Faucheron, Abo-Alhassan, Girard, and Sage. The first draft of the manuscript was written by Abo-Alhassan and Faucheron. Statistical analysis was performed by Girard. All authors commented on previous versions of the manuscript. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.

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Correspondence to Jean-Luc Faucheron.

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All procedures performed in this study were in accordance with the ethical standards research committee and with the Helsinki declaration. Study was registered in the internal register of the Grenoble Alpes University Hospital of studies respecting the reference methodology MR004 of the French National Commission for Informatics and Freedoms (CNIL).

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Patients were informed that their anonymized data might in the future be the subject of clinical research and could oppose this by informing the doctor.

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Trial registration number: Under the acronym RAVAGE (Agreement MR004) on May 28, 2020.

Meeting presentation: Podium presentations at the French Academy of Surgery, Paris, 9 December, 2020 and at the Meeting of the French Society of Digestive Surgery (SFCD), Paris, 24-26 November, 2021.

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Abo-Alhassan, F., Trilling, B., Sage, PY. et al. Long-Term Outcomes of Surgery for Rectovaginal Fistula in 100 Consecutive Patients at a Tertiary Center. J Gastrointest Surg 27, 803–806 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11605-022-05490-y

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