Progress in Proctology

The Future of Proctology.- I. Injuries of the Colon and Rectum.- Injuries of the Colon and Rectum.- Complications of Proctoscopy and Irrigoscopy.- Barium Peritonitis.- II. Anal Fistulas.- A Pictorial History of Surgical Treatment of "Fistula-in-Ano".- Fistula-in-Ano.- The Classification of Fistula-in-Ano.- The Prevention of Anal Fistulas by the Correct Treatment of Anal Abscesses and Phlegmons.- Chronic Abscesses of the Ano-Rectum.- Systematic Anal Sphincter Resection and Immediate Myorrhaphy in High Anal Fistula Exeresis - Technique and Results.- Gross Rectal Involvement in Crohn's Disease.- Anal Fistulas in Regional Enteritis.- Anal Fistula in the Adult and Child.- III. Chronic Obstipation.- Surgical Treatment of Chronic Obstipation.- Current Problems in Constipation.- Psychosomatic Aspects in Chronic Constipation.- Sigmoid Fixation Syndrome.- The Pathology of Megacolon.- Surgery of Megacolon.- The Surgical Treatment of Megacolon.- IV. Incontinentia Alvi.- Problems of Continence in Atresia Ani and Congenital Megacolon.- Electrical Treatment of Anal Incontinence and Rectal Prolapse Using an External Stimulator with Intra Anal Electrodes.- Surgical Tactics in the Treatment of Rectal Sphincter Insufficiency.- Myokinetic Sphincterplasty with Incontinentia Alvi After Anal and Rectal Atresia.- V. Colon Polyps and Cancer Relationship.- Colonic Polyps and Carcinoma Risk.- Incidence of Polyps and Carcinomas in the Colon and Rectum in Current Autopsy Material.- Statistical Analysis of Polyps of the Colon and Rectum in Japan with Consideration of their Malignant Degeneration.- Adenomatous Polyps of the Rectum and Recto-Sigmoid - Benign and Malignant - Surgical Management.- Problems in the Histological Diagnosis of Polyps of the Colon.- Classification and Therapy ofColon Polyps.- Hypersecretory Villous Tumor of the Colon.- Malignant Transformation of Diffuse Polyposis of the Colon.- Familiar Polyposis Coli.- VI. Cancer.- Social Acceptability of the Colostomy - the Surgeon's Task and Duty.- A Plea for Primary Hemicolectomy in Perforated Cancer of the Right Colon.- Carcinoid Tumours.- Situation of Endorectal Irradiation in the Curative Treatment of Rectum Cancer at the Outset.- Some Consideration on the Operative Treatment of Cancer of the Rectum.- VII. Colitis, Diverticulitis, Proctitis.- The Surgical Treatment of Ulcerative Colitis.- One-Stage Proctocolectomy with Anal Ileostomy.- Surgical Treatment of Nonspecific Ulcerative Colitis.- Primary Syphilis of the Anorectal Region.- A Case of Pseudo-Cancerous Endometriosis of the Rectal-Vaginal Wall -Radiography and Therapy.- Colon Biopsy in Undiagnosed Chronic Amoebiasis.- Ulcerative or Amoebic Colitis?.- Diverticulitis, Diverticulosis Coli.- Diverticular Disease of the Colon in Greece.- VIII. Diagnostic Procedures.- The Present State of Radiodiagnostics of the Colon and Rectum.- Scintigraphy in the Preoperative Diagnosis of Rectal Carcinoma.- Scintigraphy of the Colon.- Angiographic and Microangiographic Patterns of Colonic Lesions.- Color Photography of the Colon with a Gastrocamera.- A Study of the Resorption of 131INa from the Normal and Pathological Rectum.- Proctosigmoidoscopy in Colon Diseases.- IX. Proctology.- Proctological Consultation.- Clinical Manifestations of Anorectal Disease.- Rectal Anatomy with Clinical Significance.- Non-Radical vs. Radical Anorectal Surgery.- Surgical Management of Strangulated, Thrombosed Hemorrhoids as an Emergency Procedure.- Cataclysmic Rectorrhagia of Unusual Cause: the Myeloma.- A Method for the Adequate Preparation of RectoscopicExaminations.