Minor anal pathology. Suggestions for ambulatory and hospital treatment

: A series of cases of anorectal pathology treated at the out-patient level or after hospitalisation in the course of the last five years is reviewed. Deference is made to subjects with haemorrhoids operated according to Milligan-Morgan or Parks in accordance with varying indications, or treated cryosurgically as out-patients, patients with upper or lower transsphincteric perianal fistula treated by means of the lay-open technique or elastic tourniquet under general or local anaesthesia, patients with acute anal fissures treated by means of internal lateral sphincterotomy under local anaesthesia, and those with inveterate forms subjected to Arnous posterior leiomyotomy. From a critical assessment of the hospital and out-patient activities carried out suggestions and indications are drawn with regard to cases that must be treated in hospital and those for which outpatient management is correct.