A Rare Cause of Entero-Vesical Fistula Caused by a Skewer, Multidisciplinary Management and Minimally-Invasive Surgical Correction

Roberto Campagnacci
2014 Jurnalul de Chirurgie (Journal of Surgery)  
Entero-vesical fistulae (EVf) occurs rarely but it is a serious clinical condition often correlated with other pathologies. It accounts for 1 to 3000 hospital accesses/year. We present a patient with a sigmoid-vesical fistulae caused by the accidental ingestion of a wood skewer two years before. In literature about 6,09 % of accesses in the first aid area(FAa) are due to the ingestion of foreign bodies(FBs) but in 80-90% of them they are expelled with stools. In frequently FBs in the lower
more » ... ointestinal tract can be the result of an orally ingested sharp object that becomes impacted. The management of this case was multidisciplinary, and the correction was a laparoscopic one time approach.
doi:10.7438/1584-9341-10-2-19 fatcat:7q6imwjoljbfpjzxg3gt7bocxe