title: [A rare case of an epigastric fistula].
abstract: The authors report on a 75-year-old man who had been operated on 50 years before because of a gastric perforation. Since then he had had no symptoms. Two weeks before visiting the doctor he had noticed a 2-mm fistula in the epigastric region. Symptomatic therapy prescribed by the general practitioner had no result. On fistulography a complete gastric fistula was diagnosed. X-ray examination of the stomach showed an area highly suggestive of gastric cancer in the antrum region. Surgical examination revealed a 6-cm-long thread with concomitant, enormously extensive granuloma.
authors.affiliation: Abteilung Röntgendiagnostik, Universitätsklinik Freiburg.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Beck
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Beck
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Beck
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D005402:Fistula / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000209:etiology / Q000601:surgery; D005547:Foreign Bodies; D005747:Gastric Fistula / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000209:etiology / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011859:Radiography; D012871:Skin Diseases / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*
vernacular_title: Der seltene Befund einer epigastrischen Fistel.