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Description of disease:

Anal fistula or fistula-in-ano - also called a perianal fistula is a tunnel covered with inflamed epithalized tissue connecting anorectal abscess with perianal skin. It usually happens after a broken anorectal abscess. It is a difficult to treat disease which should be under proctologists' care.

Fistulas are, in other words, canals connecting inner organs and tissues with the skin, or cavitary organs. That is why the tunnel starts from bones or joints, bowels, gallbladder, pancreas, liver or any inner human organ and goes towards skin.
Fistula may also result from inflammations or post traumatic junctions of arteries and veins.

Depending on the place of the opening fistulas may be divided into internal and external. The most common causes of anal fistulas are the inflammations:
-acute
-chronic
-purulent
-specific




Symptoms:


abscess in the perianal area
burning
discharge from the anal canal (bloody or purulent)
lump in the vulva



Research:


Per rectum examination
Rectoscopy



Doctors :


General Surgeon


Proctologist





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Bibliography: http://www.hemorrhoid.net/abscess.php
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anal_fistula

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