A 42-year-old man comes to the office with rectal bleeding. He used to haveoccasional streaks of blood on the tissue after wiping, but for the past several dayshe has seen blood dripping into the toilet bowl at the end of defecation. The patientreports chronic constipation and has to strain during defecation but has no rectal orabdominal pain. He works as a truck driver, and his diet consists mainly ofhamburgers and French fries. Abdominal examination is unremarkable. There is nomass or tenderness on digital rectal examination, but anoscopy shows bulgingpurplish-blue mucosal lesions above the dentate line. Rubber band ligation of thelesions is most likely to involve which of the following?108

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