FIGURE 1. A) Steel wire traversing anal sphincter in the pectine line; B) twisted steel wire after placement through the anal sphincter; C) fistulotomy; D) sectioned sphincter after fistulotomy; E) primary sphincteroplasty after fistulotomy.
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