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| Year : 2005 | Volume
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| Issue : 2 | Page : 116 |
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Editorial comments
DK Gupta
Department of Pediatric Surgery, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Ansari Nagar, New Delhi – 110 029, India
Correspondence Address:
D K Gupta
Department of Pediatric Surgery, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Ansari Nagar, New Delhi – 110 029
India
 Source of Support: None, Conflict of Interest: None  | Check |
DOI: 10.4103/0971-9261.16480
How to cite this article:
Gupta D K. Editorial comments. J Indian Assoc Pediatr Surg 2005;10:116 |
Regular and systematic dilatations are an integral part of postoperative management following Pena's PSARP. A number of objects have been used in the past for anal and vaginal dilatations depending on the ingenuity of the surgeon.[1] The guiding principles should be that the dilator is smooth, atraumatic and of adequate size. Pena recommends the following sizes (equivalent to Hegar's dilators) of dilators in relation to the age of the patient:
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| 1. | Keily EM, Pena A. Anorectal Malformations. In, O'Neill JA Jr, Rowe MI, Grosfeld JL, Fonkalsrud EW, Coran AG, editors. Pediatric Surgery, 5th Ed. St.Louis: Mosby; 1998. p. 1425-48.  |
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