Publications by authors named "Arie Pelta"
Purpose: This study aimed to evaluate the outcomes of the Bascom cleft lift (flap) and the pilonidal pits excision (Gips procedure).
Methods: The records of all the patients who underwent pilonidal sinus excision between November 2013 and August 2017 were reviewed. Inclusion criteria included either pilonidal pits excision or the Bascom cleft lift procedure.
Purpose: The constant presence of a narrow subcutaneous tract extending caudad to chronic fissures-in-ano is reported. The efficacy of surgically unroofing this tract (subcutaneous fissurotomy) without sphincterotomy was evaluated.
Methods: By using a narrow-gauge, hooked probe, a constant, midline subcutaneous tract was identified extending from the caudad aspect of chronic anal fissures.
Combined colonoscopy and three-quadrant hemorrhoidal ligation: 500 consecutive cases.
Dis Colon Rectum
September 2007
Purpose: This study was designed to evaluate the safety and efficacy of combining outpatient colonoscopy with simultaneous three-quadrant hemorrhoidal ligation in patients with symptomatic internal hemorrhoidal disease.
Methods: A four-year analysis of patients undergoing combined colonoscopy and synchronous three-quadrant hemorrhoidal ligation was performed. Indications for the procedure were patients with symptomatic internal hemorrhoids who had failed conservative management and who also required colonoscopy.