Table 4.

Clinical effect of traditional operation for anal fistula [10]

Surgical procedures	Recurrence rate	Anal incontinence rate
Anal fistula incision or resection	0–32%	0–31.3%
Incision-thread-drawing procedure	0–27.5%	0–22.6%
Drainage and thread drawing therapy	0–19%	0–25.7%