Internal rectal intussusception

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Abstract

Twenty-four patients with obstructed defecation due to rectal intussusception diagnosed by defecography were treated with rectopexy either by the Wells technique (9 patients) or by Orr's operation (15 patients). After follow-up from one to eight years, defecography demonstrated disappearance of the intussusception in 22 patients. None of the patients were completely relieved of their symptoms. Nine (41 percent; 95 percent confidence limits: 21-64) were improved and 13 were unchanged (59 percent; 95 percent confidence limits: 36-79), with no difference between the two procedures. One patient with solitary rectal ulcer was improved, and the ulcer disappeared. Four patients with moderate preoperative incontinence became continent postoperatively, but obstructed defecation was only improved in two of these patients. It is concluded that rectal intussusception is probably a secondary phenomenon in patients with obstructed defecation and that a conservative attitude toward surgery should be adopted.

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