A unique atlas offering to both the radiologist and the clinician an exhaustive overview of benign proctologic diseases.

All cases presented in this atlas show imaging and clinical pictures thus allowing optimal diagnosis and management of anorectal diseases.

Chapter 1 SURGEON PERFORMED ULTRASOUND IN PROCTOLOGICAL PRACTICE: AN OVERVIEW.- Introduction.- Ultrasound in Perianal Abscess and Fistula-in-Ano.- Ultrasound Assessment of Fecal Incontinence .- Endoanal,Transvaginal and Dynamic Transperineal.- Endosonography in Functional Bowel Disorders.-Chapter 2 CLINICAL USE OF TWO-DIMENSIONAL ENDOANAL AND TRANSVAGINAL SONOGRAPHY.- Introduction.- Normal Anatomy (Endoanal and Transvaginal).- Anal Sepsis.- Crohn's Disease.- Fecal Incontinence.- Trauma.- Following STARR Procedure.- Fecal Incontinence and Rectal Prolapse.- Postsurgical Miscellanea.-Evacuatory Disorders.- Congenital Conditions.- Anal Fissure.- Proctalgia.- References.- Chapter 3 THREE-DIMENSIONAL ENDOANAL ULTRASOUND IN BENIGN PROCTOLOGICAL PRACTICE.- Introduction.-Normal Anatomy.- Fecal Incontinence.- Anal Fistula and Abscess.- Constipation and Proctalgia .- Chapter 4 STATIC AND DYNAMIC TRANSPERINEAL SONOGRAPHY IN BENIGN PROCTOLOGY.- Introduction.- Normal Anatomy.- Fecal Incontinence.- Anal Fistula.- Recto-Vaginal Fistula.- Transperineal Ultrasound in Evacuatory Dysfunction.- Rectoanal Intussusception.- Enterocele.- Peritoneocele Rectal Prolapse Rectocele.- Evacuatory Block Due to Extra-Rectal Mass.- Familial Hypertrophic Internal Sphincter Imperforate Anus.