[Non-surgical treatment of hemorrhoids].

The treatment of hemorrhoids includes a vast array of medical and instrumental means. If there is no true medical treatment, there are numerous products in order to act on the symptoms or one of the factors of the hemorrhoidal complex. Thus, phlebotonics, local topical agents, anti-infectious and anti-inflammatory agents, myorelaxants, transit regulators. Instrumental means are essentially represented by sclerosing injections, infra-red photocoagulation, cryotherapy, and mainly elastic rubber bands. All these treatments, some of which were offered as a substitute to surgery, often give interesting results, but are not devoid of danger. The attitude of the medico-surgical proctologist is then to find a happy medium between a procedure which is insufficient and one which may become unnecessarily aggressive.