A reno-jejunal fistula

✍ Scribed by Martin Horwich

• Book ID: 101736945
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1961
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 246 KB
• Volume: 49
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0007-1323
• DOI: 10.1002/bjs.18004921326

✦ Synopsis

THE occurrence of a fistulous connexion between the kidney or ureter and a n adjacent organ or the body surface is a serious condition, and presents a formidproblem. The condition was first described b y Hippocrates in the fifth century B G and A b e h u s e (1949) was able to collect a total of 340 cases of renal fistula from the world's literature.

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