The authors had the opportunity in a 38-year period of practice in Coloproctology, to attend 34,000 patients. Diagnose of hemorrhoids as the main cause of the symptoms was achieved in 9,289 patients (27.3%) and 2,417 of them (26.0%) underwent to haemohrroidectomy. Histopathologic examination was carried out in 2,134 specimens (88.3%). The aim of this report is to analyse these patients as far as histopathologic examination is concerned as well as to compare our findings to other similar reports of the literature. The confirmation of hemohrroids was carried out in all of them (100.0%). Associated anal diseases were found in 1,122 of 9,289 patients with the main diagnose of hamorrhoids (12.1%). Among 2,417 patients who underwent haemohrroidectomy 729 (30.2%) had surgery associated with anal diseases, and of these 729 cases, the histopathological examination reached the diagnosis in 530 specimens (72.8%). Associated anal diseases with the highest proportion of confirmation of diagnose by the histopathologic examination were anal fistula (100.0% of 89 operated patients), anal condyloma (100.0% of 22 operated patients), hyperthrophied anal papilla (79.0% or 211 of 267 operated patients), anal fissure (68.5% or 217 of 317 operated patients) and anal cancer (66.7% or 2 of 3 operated patients). The authors enphasise that histopathologic examination of surgical specimens of hemorrhoidectomy is very important, not only to confirm the main disease - hemorrhoids - but also to diagnose associated anal diseases found or not found preoperatively.
Hemorrhoids; Hemorrhoidectomy; examination; histopathological examination of piles
