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My delivery notes show a 4th degree tear that only involved rectal mucosa and the eas (went just inferior to the ias). is this anatomically possible?

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Yes: I think they are trying to describe an incomplete anal tear. The entire sphincter did not tear but you had a partial. It is also partial for the rectal mucosa to tear underneath the muscle and the muscle not to tear at all. That's why we do a rectal exam after deliveries if there is suspicion of a tear there.

Answered 6/19/2014

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