Revista do Colégio Brasileiro de Cirurgiões ()

Fístula pieloduodenal espontânea

  • José Cury,
  • Miguel Srougi

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1590/S0100-69911999000300017
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 26, no. 3
pp. 203 – 205

Abstract

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Authors present two cases of spontaneous pyeloduodenal fistulas associated to suppurative kidney disease. In both cases the fistulas developed from pyonephrosis and perirenal abscesso Diagnosis was made through intravenous or retrograde pyelogram and two patients were successfully treated by nephrectomy and primary duodenorraphy. Authors present a literature review concluding that 72 additional cases of pyeloduodenal fistulas have been described.

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