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Management of Hemorrhoids

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A clinical complaint of “hemorrhoids” can represent quite a number of clinical problems. There are multiple causes of hemorrhoidal irritation with grades of severity. Surgical intervention should be considered after failure of medical management. The predominant symptoms of hemorrhoid disease should guide the choice of surgical therapy.

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  • Proctoscopy
  • Hemorrhoid thrombosis
  • Internal hemorrhoids
  • External hemorrhoids
  • Hemorrhoidectomy
  • Hemorrhoidopexy
  • Sclerotherapy

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  1. Department of Surgery, Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, One Medical Center Drive, Lebanon, NH, USA

    Matthew Z. Wilson

  2. Department of Surgery, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, NJ, USA

    Joseph R. Notaro

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  1. Department of Surgery, Stony Brook Medicine, Stony Brook, NY, USA

    Salvatore Docimo Jr.

  2. Department of Surgery, Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, PA, USA

    Eric M. Pauli

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Wilson, M.Z., Notaro, J.R. (2019). Management of Hemorrhoids. In: Docimo Jr., S., Pauli, E. (eds) Clinical Algorithms in General Surgery . Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-98497-1_71

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