Colorectal surgery

Colorectal surgery is a field in medicine dealing with disorders of the rectum, anus, and colon.

[1] The field is also known as proctology, but this term is now used infrequently within medicine and is most often employed to identify practices relating to the anus and rectum in particular.

Physicians specializing in this field of medicine are called colorectal surgeons or proctologists.

Colorectal surgical disorders include:[2] Surgical forms of treatment for these conditions include: colectomy, ileo/colostomy, polypectomy, strictureplasty, hemorrhoidectomy (in severe cases of hemorrhoids), minimally invasive surgery, anoplasty, and more depending on the condition the patient has.

Other diagnostic procedures used by colorectal surgeons include: proctoscopy, defecating proctography, sigmoidoscopy.