Review of 31 vesicointestinal fistulas: diagnosis and management

Eur Urol. 1986;12(1):21-7. doi: 10.1159/000472571.

Abstract

Review of 31 cases of enterovesical fistulas treated at the Departments of Urology and General Surgery during the period 1970-1982. In 20 cases (64.5%) the underlying cause was a carcinoma (overall colorectal neoplasm) and in 7 cases (23%) it was an inflammatory disease. Gouverneur's syndrome (suprapubic pain, frequency, dysuria, urinary pain and tenesmus) was present in 17 patients (54.8%). Pneumaturia and fecaluria were present in 18 and rectal micturition in only 5. The diagnosis was based on cystograms in 66.6% of the patients. Other explorations oriented us towards the location of the fistula but only confirmed it in a low percentage (10-30%). The treatment undertaken varied in each case depending on the etiology and the patient's condition: medical (3%), derivative and palliative surgery (23%) and radical surgery (68%).

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Aged
  • Appendicitis / complications
  • Colitis / complications
  • Colonic Neoplasms / complications
  • Feces
  • Female
  • Gases / urine
  • Hematuria
  • Humans
  • Intestinal Fistula / diagnosis
  • Intestinal Fistula / etiology*
  • Intestinal Fistula / surgery
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Postoperative Complications / mortality
  • Rectal Neoplasms / complications
  • Reoperation
  • Sigmoid Diseases / complications
  • Syndrome
  • Urinary Bladder Fistula / diagnosis
  • Urinary Bladder Fistula / etiology*
  • Urinary Bladder Fistula / surgery
  • Urinary Bladder Neoplasms / complications
  • Urinary Tract Infections / etiology

Substances

  • Gases