http://www.proctosite.com/video_atlas/anal_fissure/videos/sphinc_250.wmv
Hi buddies - since many members are having this procedure and always wonder where the heck the cut is - here is your chance to watch it (if you can , that is ). If you did not enjoy dissections in school - better do not open !
Bottom line - the cut is outside !!!

Fiss
I surfed the net yesterday and also found a video of LIS, I would recommend NOT to watch it. I started to watch, but it was all too much for me....
My husband saw it, and he told me that they cut from the outside which did surprised me.
Corsica

:( Fissy the link isnt working for me. Is it just my computer???
I'm surprised they cut the outside, I thought it was called lateral INTERNAL sphincter-whatever, because it was the inner sphincter muscle cut.

Erm.. Do you have windows media player Val ??
Nice findings Fiss !
I thought the same too Val .....OER
Fiss please dont find a vid of A/D !!! :flush:

i think that is the same site i saw the fistulotomy video and then there is one with the anal plug for the fistulotomy....yikes! that's what sent me in scaredy cat mode and how i came across macrobiotics because i didn't want that to happen to my ass!
hehehehehehe.....

They cut from the outside and then they take (drag) out the sphincter through the hole and cut it. At least that what my hubby told me........and yes happyass "scared cat mode" describes what I felt too.
Not my cup of tea
Try these if you dare:
http://fissurecure.com/video/sphinc_250.wmv
http://fissurecure.com/

YUK! That sounds nasty!
I still can't play any of the videos! Whats windows media player?? My son has a state-of-the-art posh computer - but I have a basic little laptop

Fiss -
I was on the board alot this weekend because I was bed ridden. Anyways, I read just about every surgery post ever written on this board (including your old ones) and someone actually posted this last year and I watched it yesterday!
I actually loved this video! I love watching this stuff! I just can't figure out why the cut is on the outside? It is called an Internal Lateral Sphincterotomy. I have not looked, but I don't feel like my cut is on the outside. Also, in the video, there were stiches put it - is this the difference between an open & closed shincterotomy? Either way, this video still rocks!
Also, I have assisted with about 50 vasectomies. The doctor that I helped out used to cauterize the vas deferens after he cut them. He told me not everyone did this last step and it was difference that the vas deferens might grow back compared to the deffinatly won't grow back. I wonder if the same goes for sphincterotomies. In this video, the doctor cauterized the muscle. I wonder if that means those of us who's LIS did not work, sphincters were NOT cauterized (which most the time prevents the regrowth of mucsle). If you were not cauterized, it does not mean your muscle will grow back, it just means there is more of a chance of it. I hope I am making scence. I am just comparing this surgery with other procedures I am familiar with.
Thanks for digging up this video!!!

no way in hell would i watch this video. i dont' even want to know what goes on during surgery...especially since i'm due for my 3rd in 2 weeks!!! YUCK

iamtiredofthis wrote:
is this the difference between an open & closed shincterotomy? Either way, this video still rocks!

That was my next question !!!