What is proctology?
Proctology is a branch of general surgery that treats exclusively the benign pathology of the rectum and anus. In proctology, hemorrhoids, anal fissures, anal or perianal fistulas, hemorrhoidal thromboses and abscesses would enter.
What is the prevalence of proctological pathologies?
It is becoming more common. In fact in the books of pathology always say that hemorrhoids are the most common pathology of all mankind. What happens is that sometimes it is treated and sometimes not. It is quite common for a patient to have blood, have pain when going to the bathroom or have a lump and get inflamed. These symptoms are quite frequent.
Are the proctological pathologies more frequent in Canary Islands?
No. On a general level it is quite frequent. What happens is that many people go to their insurance and send them an ointment and refer them to surgery and spend months and months. In this type of pathologies the patient can not stand, that is, if the patient is bleeding a lot or is in a lot of pain, he can not wait many months. Then look for ways out and there we are.
What are the pathologies that a proctologist does not address?
Everything we call neoplastic, what would be tumor. When we examine a patient and we detect that there may be a tumor, we derive it to general surgery of the hospitals. We have contact with them and we facilitate the steps they have to take instead of going to the general practitioner because we speak directly with the surgeons and the patients go there directly to be evaluated.
