[Treatment of hemorrhoids].

In the years 1980-89, 156 patients were treated in the Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, in whom the main disease were haemorrhoids. Surgical treatment was given to 101 patients (64.74%), and 55 patients were treated conservatively (35.26%). In the group of patients treated surgically, the Whitehead method was used in 58.42% of cases, the Milligan method in 35.64% of patients, and in the remaining 5.94% the operation was carried out by other methods. Among the patients operated on, cure was achieved in 97 cases (96.04%), four patients (3.96%) required further treatment due to local complications (3-after operation by the Whitehead method, 1-by the Milligan method). More postoperative complications were seen in patients treated by the Whitehead method (5.08%) than by the Milligan method (2.78%), but for operation by the Whitehead method, patients were qualified with advanced, often complicated haemorrhoids, and all patients with accompanying anal prolapse.