Clinical Study
Treatment of Internal Hemorrhoids by Endoscopic Sclerotherapy with Aluminum Potassium Sulfate and Tannic Acid
Table 3
Comparison with conventional injection sclerotherapy.
| References | Patients () | Follow-up (months) | Sclerosing agents | Effectiveness (%) | Complications (%) | Recurrence (%) | Additional therapy (%) |
| Greca et al. 1981 [27] | 43 | 12 | 5% phenol | 70.0 | 0 | 30.2 | 14.0 | Gartell et al. 1985 [12] | 109 | 33 | 5% phenol | 70.0 | 0 | — | 25.7 | Walker et al. 1990 [13] | 28 | 48 | 5% phenol | 35.7 | 70.2 | 64.2 | 14.3 | Santos et al. 1993 [14] | 189 | 48 | 5% phenol | 60.3 | 0.5 | 8.5 | 22.2 | Kanellos et al. 2003 [15] | 80 | 48 | 5% phenol | 17.5 | 36.3 | 63.0 | 30.0 |
Shi 1997 [16] | 21,361 | 36 | Xiaozhiling | 99.0 | 4.6 | 1.0 | — | Takano et al. 2006 [6] | 95 | 12 | ALTA | 94.0 | 49.0 | 16.0 | — | Tokunaga et al. 2010 [17] | 784 | 4–30 | ALTA | 96.0 | 1.8 | — | — | Hachiro et al. 2011 [7] | 448 | 29 | ALTA | — | 3.1 | — | 3.1 | Miyamoto et al. 2012 [18] | 28 | 8–21 | ALTA | 100 | 21.4 | 10.7 | — | Yano et al. 2014 [19] | 57 | 48 | ALTA | 53 | — | — | 22.8 | Present study 2015 | 83 | 27 | ALTA | 97.6 | 4.8 | 9.6 | 8.4 |
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