title: [External intestinal fistulae].
abstract: The authors describe external intestinal fistulae found within 11 years at 5000 urgent operations on abdominal organs in 56 patients. 20 of them showed fistulae of appendicular origin, 15 developed fistulae following various traumas of abdominal organs, 1--after intestinal ileus, in 3 cases fistulae were due to incarceration of hernia, in 17 cases external fistulae were applied in intestinal neoplasms. Small gut fistulae were noted in 15, colon fistulae--in 41 patients. The total of 19 patients died, most of them had malignant intestinal neoplasms.
mesh_terms: D001062:Appendectomy / Q000009:adverse effects; D001064:Appendicitis / Q000150:complications; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007412:Intestinal Fistula / Q000209:etiology / Q000401:mortality / Q000601:surgery*; D007420:Intestine, Large; D007421:Intestine, Small; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011300:Preoperative Care
vernacular_title: Naruzhnye kishechnye svishchi.