Anal US may provide the clinician with useful information for both classification, diagnosis and management of anorectal sepsis, anal incontinence and anorectal-perineal chronic pain.

Clinical Ultrasound in Benign Proctology includes cases accompanied by both clinical pictures and diagnostic images, thus assisting both radiologists and clinicians in assessing the reliability of the exam and the outcomes of the treatment.

Contents

1. Surgeon Performed Ultrasound in Proctological Practice: An Overview

• Ultrasound in Perianal Abscess and Fistula-in-Ano
• Ultrasound Assessment of Fecal Incontinence
• Endoanal,Transvaginal and Dynamic Transperineal
• Endosonography in Functional Bowel Disorders

2. Clinical Use of Two-Dimensional Endoanal and Transvaginal Sonography

• Normal Anatomy (Endoanal and Transvaginal)
• Anal Sepsis
• Crohn’s Disease
• Fecal Incontinence
• Trauma
• Following STARR Procedure
• Fecal Incontinence and Rectal Prolapse
• Postsurgical Miscellanea
• Evacuatory Disorders
• Congenital Conditions
• Anal Fissure
• Proctalgia

3. Three-Dimensional Endoanal Ultrasound in Benign Proctological Practice

• Normal Anatomy
• Fecal Incontinence
• Anal Fistula and Abscess
• Constipation and Proctalgia

4. Static and Dynamic Transperineal Sonography in Benign Proctology

• Normal Anatomy
• Fecal Incontinence
• Anal Fistula
• Recto-Vaginal Fistula
• Transperineal Ultrasound in Evacuatory Dysfunction
• Rectoanal Intussusception
• Enterocele
• Peritoneocele Rectal Prolapse Rectocele
• Evacuatory Block Due to Extra-Rectal Mass
• Familial Hypertrophic Internal Sphincter Imperforate Anus

Index

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