[X-ray study in the examination of patients with perineal fistulas].

The paper discusses whether X-ray study of patients with perineal fistulas is required and justified. The main reason is that there is a diversity of diseases which display the same signs as paraproctitis. Of 426 examinees, perineal fistulas were mainly caused by chronic paraproctitis in 85% and by other various diseases showing the similar symptoms in 15%.

[A comparative study of nonsurgical methods in the treatment of hemorrhoids].

The authors conducted comparative appraisal of the results of treatment of hemorrhoids in 3 groups of patients at a higher surgical risk in 1989-1990. Group 1 consisted of 79 patients given the traditional nonoperative treatment. Group 2 was made up of 17 patients in whom the hemorrhoidal nodes were ligated by means of latex rings.