[Quality of life and its association with the severity of fecal incontinence].

Background: Wexner's score is widely used to assess the severity of fecal incontinence (FI). The 36-item short form health survey (SF-36) and the Fecal Incontinence Quality of Life Scale (FIQLS), a disease-specific scale, are instruments measuring quality of life that have been validated into Spanish.

Aim: To evaluate quality of life in patients with FI by using the FIQL and SF-36 scales to correlate the results with the Wexner's score.

[Inflammatory cloacogenic polyps: a rare cause of rectal bleeding].

Inflammatory cloacogenic polyps are infrequent lesions that usually arise in the anorectal zone. The most common clinical presentation is rectal bleeding. Two cases of rectal bleeding related to cloacogenic polyps with different endoscopic appearance are reported.