Relapsing Urinary Tract Infections as a Single Symptom of a Foreign Body within the GIT in a Diverticulosis Patient

Czech version

Authors: T. Petrovajová; V. Bak; M. Oravský; M. Schnorrer; B. Vichová
Authors‘ workplace: III. chirurgická klinika LF UKo, UNsP Milosrdní Bratia, Bratislava, Slovenská republika
Published in: Rozhl. Chir., 2011, roč. 90, č. 10, s. 587-589.
Category: Monothematic special - Original

Overview

Recidiving urinary tract infections and pneumaturia are the cardinal symptoms of colovesical fistula. The authors present a case of rare complication of diverticulosis and gastrointestinal foreign body, that only had urological symptomatology.

Key words:
urinary tract infection – fistula – gastrointestinal foreign body – diverticulosis

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