Enterocutaneous Fistula Secondary to Stump Appendicitis

The management of appendicitis with appendicectomy is very common in surgical practice. A recognised complication of appendicitis and appendicectomy is the formation of an enterocutaneous fistula. We present the case of a seventy-five-year-old woman who presented with an appendicocutaneous fistula o...

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Autores principales: Agostinho, Nelson, Bains, Harinder K., Sardelic, Franko
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi 2017
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5394400/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28473939
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2017/6135251
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author Agostinho, Nelson
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description The management of appendicitis with appendicectomy is very common in surgical practice. A recognised complication of appendicitis and appendicectomy is the formation of an enterocutaneous fistula. We present the case of a seventy-five-year-old woman who presented with an appendicocutaneous fistula on the background of an open appendicectomy performed sixty years prior to presentation.
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spelling pubmed-53944002017-05-04 Enterocutaneous Fistula Secondary to Stump Appendicitis Agostinho, Nelson Bains, Harinder K. Sardelic, Franko Case Rep Surg Case Report The management of appendicitis with appendicectomy is very common in surgical practice. A recognised complication of appendicitis and appendicectomy is the formation of an enterocutaneous fistula. We present the case of a seventy-five-year-old woman who presented with an appendicocutaneous fistula on the background of an open appendicectomy performed sixty years prior to presentation. Hindawi 2017 2017-04-03 /pmc/articles/PMC5394400/ /pubmed/28473939 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2017/6135251 Text en Copyright © 2017 Nelson Agostinho et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_short Enterocutaneous Fistula Secondary to Stump Appendicitis
title_sort enterocutaneous fistula secondary to stump appendicitis
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5394400/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28473939
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2017/6135251
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