Colo-cutaneous fistula to the thigh secondary to acute sigmoid diverticulitis: a case report

Acute diverticulitis is one of the most common gastrointestinal illnesses that requires hospital admission. It has a broad range of presentations from uncomplicated disease to perforation and peritonitis that require emergent surgical exploration. Abscesses are one of the most common complications....

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Autores principales: Serpa, Eduardo, Pacheco, Felipe, Pindicura, Sundarachalam, Marar, Omar
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2023
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10198643/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37215627
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jscr/rjad267
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author Serpa, Eduardo
Pacheco, Felipe
Pindicura, Sundarachalam
Marar, Omar
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Pacheco, Felipe
Pindicura, Sundarachalam
Marar, Omar
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description Acute diverticulitis is one of the most common gastrointestinal illnesses that requires hospital admission. It has a broad range of presentations from uncomplicated disease to perforation and peritonitis that require emergent surgical exploration. Abscesses are one of the most common complications. We present a case of retroperitoneal abscess with extension to the antero-lateral upper thigh that was successfully treated with open Hartman’s procedure with drainage of psoas abscess and open drainage of thigh abscess.
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spelling pubmed-101986432023-05-20 Colo-cutaneous fistula to the thigh secondary to acute sigmoid diverticulitis: a case report Serpa, Eduardo Pacheco, Felipe Pindicura, Sundarachalam Marar, Omar J Surg Case Rep Case Report Acute diverticulitis is one of the most common gastrointestinal illnesses that requires hospital admission. It has a broad range of presentations from uncomplicated disease to perforation and peritonitis that require emergent surgical exploration. Abscesses are one of the most common complications. We present a case of retroperitoneal abscess with extension to the antero-lateral upper thigh that was successfully treated with open Hartman’s procedure with drainage of psoas abscess and open drainage of thigh abscess. Oxford University Press 2023-05-18 /pmc/articles/PMC10198643/ /pubmed/37215627 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jscr/rjad267 Text en Published by Oxford University Press and JSCR Publishing Ltd. © The Author(s) 2023. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
spellingShingle Case Report
Serpa, Eduardo
Pacheco, Felipe
Pindicura, Sundarachalam
Marar, Omar
Colo-cutaneous fistula to the thigh secondary to acute sigmoid diverticulitis: a case report
title Colo-cutaneous fistula to the thigh secondary to acute sigmoid diverticulitis: a case report
title_full Colo-cutaneous fistula to the thigh secondary to acute sigmoid diverticulitis: a case report
title_fullStr Colo-cutaneous fistula to the thigh secondary to acute sigmoid diverticulitis: a case report
title_full_unstemmed Colo-cutaneous fistula to the thigh secondary to acute sigmoid diverticulitis: a case report
title_short Colo-cutaneous fistula to the thigh secondary to acute sigmoid diverticulitis: a case report
title_sort colo-cutaneous fistula to the thigh secondary to acute sigmoid diverticulitis: a case report
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10198643/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37215627
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jscr/rjad267
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