Related Experiment Videos
Serendipitous diagnosis of appendicovesical fistula by bone scan: a case report
M E Bigler1, J E Wofford, S M Pratt
1Department of Urology, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee.
The Journal of Urology
|September 1, 1989
Abstract:
A 71-year-old patient had recurrent urinary tract infections for 7 years after sigmoid colectomy via a Hartmann procedure. Extensive radiological and endoscopic tests were inconclusive as to the cause of bacteriuria. Chronic back pain led to performance of a radionuclide bone scan with the incidental demonstration of a vesicoenteric fistula, confirmed at exploration. Appendectomy with resection of the involved bladder resulted in cessation of bacteriuria.