• 1 January 1983
    • journal article
    • research article
    • Vol. 157  (6) , 534-536
Abstract
Two groups of 18 patients undergoing sclerosant injection or rubber band ligation for 1st or mild, 2nd degree hemorrhoids were followed up at 3 yr after the initial treatment. Following sclerosant injections, 4 of 18 patients initially presenting with bleeding per rectum did not have further episodes of bleeding within the 3 yr follow-up period compared with 13 of 17 treated with rubber band ligation. The other symptoms of pain or discomfort, pruritus ani and soiling were not present with sufficient frequency to allow specific evaluation. Results of this study demonstrate that rubber band ligation produces better long term results than does sclerosant injection in treating bleeding, the principal symptom, of 1st and mild, 2nd degree hemorrhoids.

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