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An Unexpected Passage: A Complex Enterovesicular Fistula

Enterovesicular fistulas (EVFs) are abnormal connections between the colon and the urinary bladder. They are estimated to account for one in every 3,000 surgical hospital admissions and are rarely associated with long-standing Crohn’s colitis. We present an interesting case of a 93-year-old man with...

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Autores principales: Averbukh, Leon D, Farouhar, Faripour A, Bortniker, Ethan I
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6476621/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31058005
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.4111
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description Enterovesicular fistulas (EVFs) are abnormal connections between the colon and the urinary bladder. They are estimated to account for one in every 3,000 surgical hospital admissions and are rarely associated with long-standing Crohn’s colitis. We present an interesting case of a 93-year-old man with a long-standing history of Crohn’s colitis on mesalamine, whose mechanical fall at home lead to the discovery of a colovesicular fistula with invading urothelium concerning for squamous cell carcinoma.
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spelling pubmed-64766212019-05-05 An Unexpected Passage: A Complex Enterovesicular Fistula Averbukh, Leon D Farouhar, Faripour A Bortniker, Ethan I Cureus Internal Medicine Enterovesicular fistulas (EVFs) are abnormal connections between the colon and the urinary bladder. They are estimated to account for one in every 3,000 surgical hospital admissions and are rarely associated with long-standing Crohn’s colitis. We present an interesting case of a 93-year-old man with a long-standing history of Crohn’s colitis on mesalamine, whose mechanical fall at home lead to the discovery of a colovesicular fistula with invading urothelium concerning for squamous cell carcinoma. Cureus 2019-02-20 /pmc/articles/PMC6476621/ /pubmed/31058005 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.4111 Text en Copyright © 2019, Averbukh et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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