Buchanan Gordon, Halligan Steve, Williams Andrew, Cohen C Richard G, Tarroni Danilo, Phillips Robin K S, Bartram Clive I
Department of Surgery, St Mark's Hospital, Northwick Park, HA1 3UJ, London, .
Lancet. 2002 Nov 23;360(9346):1661-2. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(02)11605-9.
Recurrent fistula-in-ano is usually due to sepsis missed at surgery, which can be identified by MRI. We aimed to establish the therapeutic effect of MRI in patients with fistula-in-ano. We did MRI in 71 patients with recurrent fistula, with further surgery done at the discretion of the surgeon. Surgery and MRI agreed in 40 patients, five (13%) of whom had further recurrence, compared with 16 (52%) of 31 in whom surgery and MRI disagreed (p=0.0005). Further recurrence in all 16 was at the site predicted by MRI. For surgeons who always acted on MRI, further recurrences arose in four of 25 (16%) operations versus eight of 14 (57%) operations for those who ignored imaging (p=0.008). Surgery guided by MRI reduces further recurrence of fistula-in-ano by 75% and should be done in all patients with recurrent fistula.
复发性肛瘘通常是由于手术时遗漏了脓毒症,这可通过磁共振成像(MRI)识别。我们旨在确定MRI对肛瘘患者的治疗效果。我们对71例复发性肛瘘患者进行了MRI检查,并由外科医生酌情进行进一步手术。40例患者的手术结果与MRI结果相符,其中5例(13%)出现进一步复发,而在31例手术结果与MRI结果不符的患者中,有16例(52%)出现进一步复发(p=0.0005)。所有16例进一步复发均发生在MRI预测的部位。对于始终根据MRI结果进行手术的外科医生,25例手术中有4例(16%)出现进一步复发,而对于忽视影像学检查结果的外科医生,14例手术中有8例(57%)出现进一步复发(p=0.008)。由MRI引导的手术可使复发性肛瘘的进一步复发率降低75%,所有复发性肛瘘患者均应接受该手术。