Diseases of the

COLON r R E C T U M

Vol. 18 November-December, 19/a No. 8

Symposium

Anorectal Problems*

Moderator: JAMES A. FERGUSON, M.D.

Grand Rapids, Michigan

Panelists: CHAR~.ES H. HAMILTON, M.D., M. DOUGLAS I~IAcLEAN, M.D.,

H. ]~. LOCKHART--~UMMERY, ~[.CH., WILLIAM G. FRIEND, M.D.,

PATRICK H. HANLEY, M.D., PETER H. LORD, ~{.CH., ANTHONY HUNTER, F.R.A.C.S.

T im discussion was begun by the moder-

ator, Dr. Ferguson.

DR. FERGUSON

I t is nay pleasure to introduce this panel. Each member will deliver his paper f rom the pod ium here and then we will re-

* Symposium presented at the joint meeting of the Section of Proctology, Royal Society of Med- icine, the Section of Colonic and Rectal Surgery, Royal Australasian College of Surgeons, and the American Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons, Washington, D.C., May 22 to 25, 1974.

For reprints of the symposium please write to authors of individual articles.

Dis. Col. & Rect. Nov.-Dec. 1975

assemble for questio~as f rom the floor. You know, I have often remembered, with some nostalgia, that we used to have questions from the floor, and I th ink it had some- thing to be recommended for it; however, I see this room is not set up with micro- phones back in the audience, so if you will be kind enough to pass the questions up to us, on bits of paper, we will sort them OUt.

I would like to in t roduce first Dr. Charles Hamil ton, who was an associate of ours in Grand Rapids for two years, and is now practicing in Columbus, Ohio. He will speak to us on the deep postanal space, surgical significance in horseshoe fistula.

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