[Surgical treatment of colonic fistulas with descending colon]

Radical operations were conducted on 50 out of 78 patients with coloperineal and colovaginal fistulas consequent upon resection of the colon and bringing out its segments into the anal canal. The fistulas recurred in 10 patients. Individual choice of the operative method and development of a system of pre-, intra-, and postoperative special methods should reduce the incidence of recurrences after such operations.