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Defecography is important diagnostic method for evaluating posterior pelvic floor disease. Defecography are done often for constipation, defecation difficulty, pain of anus complaint and rectocele, mucosal intusuception, enterocele and mucosal prolapsus is appeared. 54 patients who underwent defecography evaluated retrospectively between 1 January to 31 December 2012 at Bursa Military Hospital. Patients were evaluated with age, gender, admission complaints, previous surgeries, birth numbers and defecography findings retrospectively. 11 (20.4%) were male and 43 (79.6%) were female. The mean age of patients were 44.78 ± 13.77, duration of complaints of 8.08 ± 7.08 years (mean ± standard deviation), respectively. Patients had most commonly complaint of constipation (72.2%), and difficulty in defecation (68.5%). The most common signs was rectocele (74%), mucosal intusuception was the second (61%) and rectocele with mucosal intusuception was found in 51.8% of patients. 53.7% of the patients had a previous surgery history, gynecological surgery was the most common (38.8%) previous surgery history. The most common birth number was two with 42% and no birth with 14% of 43 female patients. Defecography is a safe, simple, minimally invasive and important diagnostic method with obtains valuable information about the dynamics of defecation, and allowing the male patients as well as female patients. Gender, gynecological, coloanal and anorectal surgery and history of normal birth leads to significant changes in posterior pelvic floor disorders and in defecography findings [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]