Comments on Midterm Results After Perineal Stapled Prolapse Resection for External Rectal Prolapse

Perineal stapled prolapse resection for full‐thickness external rectal prolapse: a multicentre prospective study

“…Furthermore, they based their analysis on the number of bowel movements from selfreported bowel movement data collected from a telephone follow-up. As we suggested in an earlier study [21], we believe that changes in ODS scores reflect functional results better than bowel movement frequency. A final concern is the high cost of the procedure (estimated as US$1600-1800) [7,10].…”