[A case of bladder transitional cell carcinoma with sigmoidovesical fistula due to diverticulitis]

We present a case of bladder transitional cell carcinoma with sigmoidovesical fistula due to diverticulitis. The patient was a 65-year-old male who had been suffering from recurrent abdominal pain with high fever for the past 6 months. He noticed pneumaturia and cloudy urine several times. He visited a doctor complaining of macroscopic hematuria and high fever, and was treated under the diagnosis of acute prostatitis. In our University Hospital cystoscopy showed a papillary bladder tumor. Pathological study of the tumor revealed transitional cell carcinoma, grade II, noninvasive type. Multiple diverticulosis of sigmoid colon was identified with barium enema examination. We performed transurethral resection of the bladder tumor. Three weeks later, the sigmoidovesical fistula was treated by primary resection of the sigmoid colon and wedge resection of the bladder including fistula.