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A modified thiersch operation in treatment of complete rectal prolapse

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Diseases of the Colon & Rectum

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Summary and Conclusions

The perisphincteric wiring operation is an efficient, safe and relatively simple procedure which has yielded results in a much wider field of application than was anticipated when we first began its use ten years ago. It has served as the sole operation in extensive prolapse, especially in the aged and infirm, and we consider it to be a valuable adjunct in the combined abdominoperineal approach to complete rectal prolapse in younger, more active, patients.

The technic, as herein described, represents an improvement in both method and materials in the performance of this operation and has thereby given it greater scope. It is our opinion that our results to date justify wider application of this operation.

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  1. From Detroit, Michigan

    Ralph M. Burke M.D.

  2. the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota

    Raymond J. Jackman M.D.

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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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Burke, R.M., Jackman, R.J. A modified thiersch operation in treatment of complete rectal prolapse. Dis Colon Rectum 2, 555–561 (1959). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02617008

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