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M Zanghi

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Use of BICAP in a case of colon angiodysplasia.

This paper reports on a case of colonic bleeding from an angiodysplastic lesion of the ascending colon in a 71-year-old diabetic woman, resulting in severe anemia in the patient, who was treated using the BICAP electrocoagulation system. The present report includes a description of this technique, which involves the use of a 7-F hemostatic probe connected to a 25-W BICAP source.

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[Anal abscesses].

Infectious anal abscesses occur at high frequency and are important to understand since they are invariably accompanied by fistulous complications. Knowledge of the anatomy of the anal canal and the distal section of the rectum is important in the choice of therapy. Indeed, treatment varies with the classification of the fistulae. Between 1975 and 1984 the authors treated 105 cases of anal abscesses; a recurrence rate of less than 1 percent was noted.

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