Anal fissure occurring in infants and children

Abstract
Summary There were 174 children with symptoms of fissure. One hundred seventeen had active lesions. Fifty-seven had been described as “postfissure” patients. In all, 141 were reached in follow up studies varying from one to 161/2 years after treatment; 136 were cured (one by operation); only five still had bowel symptoms, none of which were pathognomonic of fissure. Gould defines a syndrome as a set of symptoms which occur together, the sum of signs of any morbid state. I believe that the 57 patients wthout active lesions presented a postfissure syndrome probably understood by all of us but as yet unnamed.