Acknowledgement
I deeply appreciated Park Seong Ho (Park SH), Asan Medical Center, and Kim Minsung (Kim M), Seoul Song Do Colorectal Hospital, for helping to obtain representative MR cases. I have permission to use their valuable MR images. They also suggested much useful information to me about patients with perianal fistula.
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