Vesicointestinal fistula

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Vesicointestinal fistula
Classification and external resources
ICD-10 N32.1
ICD-9 596.1
eMedicine med/2867

A vesicointestinal fistula (or intestinovesical fistula) is a form of fistula between the bladder and the bowel.

Types

A fistula involving the bladder can have one of many specific names, describing the specific location of its outlet:

  • Bladder and intestine: "vesicoenteric", "enterovesical", or "vesicointestinal"[1][2][3]
  • Bladder and colon: "vesicocolic" or "colovesical"[4]
  • Bladder and rectum: "vesicorectal" or "rectovesical"[5]

Symptoms/signs

If fecal matter passes through the fistula into the bladder, the existence of the fistula may be revealed by pneumaturia or fecaluria.

References


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