A new case of appendicovesical fistula is reported. Usually a known cause is ulcerative colitis, morbus Crohn, malignancy of the appendix or as complication to perforated appendicitis, but in the described case there was no history of such previous illness. The only pathological finding was the presence of an abundant amount of nervous tissue in the appendix. It is concluded that a history of p...

Laparoscopic surgery has become a frequently used modality for rectal tumour surgery. A fistula between the rectum and lower urinary tract is one of the possible complications, with rectovesical fistulas occurring most frequently. This case report presents a 66-year-old man who underwent a laparoscopic low-anterior resection of the rectum due to the presence of a polyp with a high risk of malig...

The Martius flap procedure is a surgical procedure used to treat obstetric fistulas in women. Heinrich Martius developed the procedure in twentieth century Germany to treat women with urinary incontinence caused by stress, and later doctors used it to repair obstetric fistulas. Fistulas occur in pregnant women when a hole is torn between the vagina [3] and the urinary tract (called vesicovagina...

The images presented below were from a man, at the age of 80, who was admitted to hospital with recurrent urinary tract infection. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) was performed after initial examination. Conventional MRI showed multiple diverticulum in bladder and one of them had contact sigmoid colon via fistula tract (Figure-1). Diffusion weighted images (DWI) showed restricted diffusion in ...

The Martius flap procedure is a surgical procedure used to treat obstetric fistulas in women. Heinrich Martius developed the procedure in twentieth century Germany to treat women with urinary incontinence caused by stress, and later doctors used it to repair obstetric fistulas. Fistulas occur in pregnant women when a hole is torn between the vagina [3] and the urinary tract (called vesicovagina...

BACKGROUND Whenever technically feasible and oncologically justified, nephron-sparing surgery is the current standard of care for localized renal cell carcinomas (RCC). The main complications of partial nephrectomy, especially for large and centrally located tumors, are urinary leakage and parenchymal bleeding. We prospectively evaluated the pros and cons of using porcine small intestinal submu...

OBJECTIVE To determine the commonest cause of genitourinary fistulae and evaluate the experience of the surgical management. The study was carried out at the Urology Department, Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre (JPMC), Karachi. METHODS Twenty two patients were operated including 14 of Vesicovaginal Fistula (WF), and 8 of Ureterovaginal Fistula (UVF). In one patient of WF fistula was extendi...

Carcinosarcoma is a malignant tumor of biphasic character consisting epithelial and mesenchymal components. This rarely-seen has an exceedingly aggressive nature. While it rare in the urinary system, appears even more rarely renal pelvis. Thus, there are few publications literature on carcinosarcomas originating from paper presents 42-year-old male patient with carcinosarcoma pelvis (CSRP), kid...

A woman with squamous cell carcinoma of the uterine cervix, status post-irradiation therapy, was evaluated for skeletal metastasis. Technetium-99m hydroxy methylene diphosphonate bone images showed an area of abnormal radiotracer localization in the left abdomen corresponding to the descending colon. Contrast radiographic study using gastrograffin enema confirmed a large colovesical fistula bet...

INTRODUCTION A variety of urethral foreign bodies (UFBs) have been reported in the literature; however, it is a rare clinical finding.(1-6) Most of the UFBs tend to be self-inserted because of sexual or erotic reasons.(2) Presentation is usually with dysuria, poor urinary stream, swelling of external genitalia, urethral discharge, or urinary tract infection. Late presentation may be with compli...