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PRIMARY ILIAC‐APPENDICEAL FISTULA
Author(s) -
Chambers Jennifer L.,
Graham John C.,
Appleberg Michael
Publication year - 1988
Publication title -
australian and new zealand journal of surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.111
H-Index - 51
eISSN - 1445-2197
pISSN - 0004-8682
DOI - 10.1111/j.1445-2197.1988.tb06246.x
Subject(s) - medicine , surgery , fistula , intramedullary rod , presentation (obstetrics) , paraplegia , appendix , abscess , rectum , spinal cord , paleontology , psychiatry , biology
Primary aorto‐appendiceal fistula has been reported only once previously. A further case is presented in which bleeding. per rectum. occurred in association with rupture of an aorto‐iliac aneurysm adherent to an acutely inflamed appendix. Postoperatively the patient had several complications including permanent asynimetrical L, paraplegia and delayed presentation of an intramedullary abscess of the femur which grew Bacteroirdes fiqilis organisms. These complications highlight the high morbidity associated with nortocolic fistulae.