Hemorrhoids: Diagnosis and Current Management

The American Surgeon | August 1, 2009| | Copyright

THE PREVALENCE of symptomatic hemorrhoids in the United States is estimated at 4.4 per cent, affecting men and women equally with a peak prevalence between ages 45 and 65 years old.1 As many as onethird of these individuals seek medical attention and 49 of 100,000 patients undergo hemorrhoidectomy annually, yet surgeons in training have an average experience of less than eight hemorrhoidectomies over their 5 to 7 years of general surgery residency (operative experience is cited by applicants to the 2006 General Surgery Qualifying Examination of the American Board of Surgery (n = 805)). The ...

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