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An 8-year-old previously healthy boy with no history of skin disease presents with painful defecation and blood-streaked stools. He says that the perianal area does not itch. Physical examination findings are significant for well-defined perianal erythema and an anal fissure.
View the image taken (Figure 1) and consider what your diagnosis would be.

Painful Defecation in a Child