Identifier: diseasesofrectum00gant (find matches)
Title: Diseases of the rectum and anus: designed for students and practitioners of medicine
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Gant, Samuel Goodwin, 1869?-
Subjects: Anus Diseases Rectal Diseases
Publisher: Philadelphia : F. A. Davis
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
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Fig. 121.—Diagrammatic Drawing Sliowing Prolapse of the Rectum. Protrusion of the mucous membrane alone is designatedas partial prolapse, and descent of all the rectal coats is termedcomplete prolapse (Plate XXI). Procidentia recti is commonto both sexes, all ages, climates, and vocations; but is mostfrequently encountered in old people and children and moreoften in women than in men. Indeed, in children proci-dentia is the most common of all the lesions met with in theano-rectal region. The protrusions are variable in size, soft and pliable inconsistence, and velvety to the touch. They have a pyriformshape, and present a slit in their distal end.(382) fego
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X PROLAPSE 383 ETIOLOGY In children the most common causes of prolapse are diar-rhea, constipation, phimosis, whooping-cough, lack of thepelvic musculature, and absence of the sacral curve, or, in fact,anything which excites frequent stools or causes undue strain-ing. In adults this condition may be induced by stone in thebladder, enlarged prostate, fecal impaction, proctitis, entero-liths, polyps, tumors of the bladder or vaginal wall, uterineprocidentia, or any other condition tending to drag the boweldownward during defecation.

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