Malignant duodenocolic fistula

Authors :: Thomas Keane
Thomas N. Walsh
J. P. Duignan
Derek J. Barton
Source :: Diseases of the Colon & Rectum. 30:636-637
Publication Year :: 1987
Publisher :: Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health), 1987.
Abstract: Malignant duodenocolic fistulas are rare; the most common cause is carcinoma of the ascending or hepatic flexure of the right colon. Thirteen cases reported to date have been treated by right hemicolectomy combined with a Whipple procedure, with a 46 percent 2.5-year survival. A case is reported in which stapling devices facilitated an extended Whipple procedure.