Left sided diverticulitis presenting as a right lumbar fistula: a case report

The formation of fistulae is a recognised complication of diverticulitis. This case report describes sigmoid diverticulitis presenting as a right psoas abscess with a colocutaneous fistula. The report highlights the role of appropriate imaging and a high index of suspicion in anyone presenting with...

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Autores principales: Green, Barnabas Rigden, Joypaul, Vickram
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cases Network Ltd 2009
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Case report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2769341/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19918511
http://dx.doi.org/10.4076/1757-1626-2-7146
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description The formation of fistulae is a recognised complication of diverticulitis. This case report describes sigmoid diverticulitis presenting as a right psoas abscess with a colocutaneous fistula. The report highlights the role of appropriate imaging and a high index of suspicion in anyone presenting with a discharging lumbar abscess, especially when the focus of infection may be from a contra-lateral source.
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spelling pubmed-27693412009-11-16 Left sided diverticulitis presenting as a right lumbar fistula: a case report Green, Barnabas Rigden Joypaul, Vickram Cases J Case report The formation of fistulae is a recognised complication of diverticulitis. This case report describes sigmoid diverticulitis presenting as a right psoas abscess with a colocutaneous fistula. The report highlights the role of appropriate imaging and a high index of suspicion in anyone presenting with a discharging lumbar abscess, especially when the focus of infection may be from a contra-lateral source. Cases Network Ltd 2009-08-04 /pmc/articles/PMC2769341/ /pubmed/19918511 http://dx.doi.org/10.4076/1757-1626-2-7146 Text en © 2009 Green and Joypaul; licensee Cases Network Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title Left sided diverticulitis presenting as a right lumbar fistula: a case report
title_full Left sided diverticulitis presenting as a right lumbar fistula: a case report
title_fullStr Left sided diverticulitis presenting as a right lumbar fistula: a case report
title_full_unstemmed Left sided diverticulitis presenting as a right lumbar fistula: a case report
title_short Left sided diverticulitis presenting as a right lumbar fistula: a case report
title_sort left sided diverticulitis presenting as a right lumbar fistula: a case report
topic Case report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2769341/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.4076/1757-1626-2-7146
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