PubMed · 4099257
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H Melson. 1971-01-09. Plastics in medicine.. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0140-6736(71)90821-x
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We describe the CT findings in an initially asymptomatic boy aged 2 years 9 months with a gastrocolic fistula following percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG) placement. The findings consisted of an unusual configuration of the gastrostomy tubing on an abdominal radiograph and upper gastrointestinal study indicating the possibility of transcolic PEG placement, which was confirmed with limited section CT. This well-known and major complication following a common procedure may be recognized on plain abdominal radiography, but it has not to our knowledge been documented previously on CT in a child.
Open surgery is still used to treat massive combined paraesophageal and hiatal hernias. The operative principles include repositioning of the stomach in the abdomen, resection of the hernia sac, narrowing of the hiatus, and gastropexy. We report on a case in which a life-threatening, gastro-pericardial fistula was an early complication after open surgical treatment.
There were examined 80 patients with fistula of various localization as complication of an acute pancreatitis.