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Brodie's pile
Associated persons:
Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie
Description:
A mass of inflamed anal mucosa at the lower end of a fissure in ano.
Bibliography:
- B. C. Brodie:
Lectures on diseases of the rectum. III. Preternatural contraction of the sphincter ani.
London Medical Gazette, 1835, 16: 26-31.
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