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                | ISSN | 
                1948-9366 (online) | 
            
            
                | Open Access | 
                This article is an open-access article that was selected by an in-house editor and fully peer-reviewed by external reviewers. It is distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/Licenses/by-nc/4.0/ | 
            
            
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        Surgery | 
    
    
        | Manuscript Type | 
        Retrospective Cohort Study | 
    
    
        | Article Title | 
        
                    Lessons learned from an audit of 1250 fistula patients operated at a single center: A retrospective review
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        | All Author List | 
        Pankaj Garg, Baljit Kaur, Ankita Goyal, Vipul D Yagnik, Sushil Dawka and Geetha R Menon | 
    
            
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        | Corresponding Author | 
        Pankaj Garg, MD, MS, Associate Professor, Surgeon, Department of Colorectal Surgery, Garg Fistula Research Institute, 1042/15, Panchkula 134113, Haryana, India. drgargpankaj@yahoo.com | 
    
    
        | Key Words | 
        Anal fistula; Fistulotomy; Incontinence; Surgery; Recurrence | 
    
    
        | Core Tip | 
        This is the largest study of anal fistulas reported to date. One thousand three hundred fifty-one fistula procedures were performed in 1250 patients over 14 years at an exclusive fistula-care center. An exact algorithm was followed- fistulotomy was done for simple fistulas, and a novel sphincter-sparing procedure, transanal opening of intersphincteric space, was performed for high complex fistulas. It resulted in an overall success rate of 93.5% in all fistulas (98.6% in simple fistulas and 86% in high complex fistulas. Fistulas associated with abscesses were managed safely and successfully by definitive fistula surgery in the first attempt. Several novel concepts were developed during the study. | 
    
            
                | Publish Date | 
                2021-04-20 08:11 | 
            
    
        | Citation | 
        Garg P, Kaur B, Goyal A, Yagnik V, Dawka S, Menon GR. Lessons learned from an audit of 1250 fistula patients operated at a single center: A retrospective review. World J Gastrointest Surg 2021; 13(4): 340-354 | 
    
            
                | URL | 
                https://www.wjgnet.com/1948-9366/full/v13/i4/340.htm | 
            
            
                | DOI | 
                https://dx.doi.org/10.4240/wjgs.v13.i4.340 | 
            
    
    
        
                
        
     
 
                 
             
         
        
    
        
        
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