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Endoanal MR imaging more accurately allows depiction and classification of fistula in ano than endoanal sonography.

Cigarette smoking affects the outcome of TAFR in patients with a cryptoglandular perianal fistula.

External anal sphincter atrophy can only be visualized on endoanal MRI and affects continence after sphincteroplasty. Endoanal MRI is valuable in the preoperative assessment of patients with faecal incontinence. Presented to the American Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, June 1997