Enterocutaneous Fistula Secondary to Stump Appendicitis

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 on the background of an open appendicectomy performed sixty years prior to presentation.

Tubo-Sigmoid Fistula Secondary to Perforated Appendicitis

Infection and inflammation of organs adjacent to the gastrointestinal tract may cause a pathological connection. In this report, complicated appendicitis caused protrusion of the right ovary and tube into the sigmoid colon of a 40-year-old woman. The mass, appearing as a polypoid lesion during colonoscopy, caused abdominal pain and bleeding and proved to be right adnexa pathologically.

'Stump appendicitis': postappendectomy appendicitis.

To cite: Zachariah SK. BMJ Case Rep Published online: [please include Day Month Year] doi:10.1136/bcr-2014208544 DESCRIPTION A 58-year-old woman presented with acute abdominal pain and vomiting of 3 days duration. She had undergone laparotomy for appendicular perforation 25 years earlier. She had recurrent episodes of abdominal pain for the past 5 years and was being treated as a case of adhesi...

Umbilical Enterocutaneous Fistula

hernial sac or subcutaneous tissue would consistently demonstrate signs of colic, this does not occur in most cases of strangulating umbilical hernias. Horses with intestinal incarceration within an umbilical hernia can have several different clinical presentations. The most common is a reducible umbilical hernia in a young horse (i.e., usually 6 to 12 months of age) that develops acute abdomin...

Stump appendicitis. Underrated reality?