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Waiting for Attention and Care: Birthing Accounts of Women in Rural Tanzania who Developed Obstetric Fistula as an Outcome of Labour. [PDF]

, 2011
\ud Obstetric fistula is a physically and socially disabling obstetric complication that affects about 3,000 women in Tanzania every year. The fistula, an opening that forms between the vagina and the bladder and/or the rectum, is most frequently caused ...
Evjen-Olsen, Bjørg, Bjørg Evjen-Olsen, Mvungi, Abu, Mvungi Abu, Mselle, Lilian T, Kohi, Thecla W, Moland Karen, Kohi Thecla W, Evjen-Olsen Bjørg, Abu Mvungi, Moland, Karen Marie, Karen Marie Moland, Thecla W Kohi, Mselle Lilian T, Lilian T Mselle   +14 more
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Treatment of the fistula tract with laser ablation in high anal fistula [PDF]

, 2022
Aim and introduction: Considering the recurrence and fecal incontinence rates in high anal fistulas, surgical treatment of anal fistulas is a challenging process, although many treatments have been defined today.
Erkan Karacan, Eyüp Murat Yılmaz
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Computed tomography demonstration of cholecystogastric fistula

Radiology Case Reports, 2016
Cholecystogastric fistula is a rare complication of chronic cholecystitis or long-standing cholelithiasis. It results from the gradual erosion of the approximated, chronically inflamed wall of the gall bladder and stomach with fistulous tract formation ...
Chung Kuao Chou, MD, MPH
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Rolling in the Deep: Imaging Findings and Diagnostic Pearls in Gallstone Ileus

Surgery Research and Practice, Volume 2020, Issue 1, 2020., 2020
Gallstone ileus is a dramatic complication of gallstone disease, uncommon but not exceptional in a busy emergency department. It represents a cause of mechanical intestinal obstruction, which predominantly occurs in elderly and frail patients; this contributes to the high morbidity and mortality rates associated with this condition.
Carnevale Aldo, Motta Lorenzo, Labaj Olgerta, Cossu Alberto, Uccelli Licia, Giganti Melchiore, Cato T. Laurencin   +6 more
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Intrahepatic Type II Gall Bladder Perforation Secondary to Acute Acalculous Cholecystitis

Case Reports in Surgery, Volume 2020, Issue 1, 2020., 2020
Gall bladder perforation is a rare but serious complication of acute cholecystitis. Gall bladder perforations commonly occur in patients with comorbidities and in association with gall stones. We report a rare occurrence of intrahepatic type II perforation of the gall bladder in a previously healthy elderly male with acalculous cholecystitis.
Vimaleswaran Koculen, Umesh Jayarajah, Anil P. Ambawatte, Michael Gorlitzer   +3 more
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"I am nothing": experiences of loss among women suffering from severe birth injuries in Tanzania. [PDF]

, 2011
\ud Despite the increased attention on maternal mortality during recent decades, which has resulted in maternal health being defined as a Millennium Development Goal (MDG), the disability and suffering from obstetric fistula remains a neglected issue in ...
Evjen-Olsen, Bjørg, Mselle, L.T., Bjørg Evjen-Olsen, Moland, K.M., Mvungi, Abu, Mselle, Lilian T, Kohi, Thecla W, Abu Mvungi, Moland, Karen Marie, Karen Marie Moland, Thecla W Kohi, Kohi, T.W., Evjen-Olsen, B., Mvungi, A., Lilian T Mselle   +14 more
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A case of gallstone ileus displaying spontaneous closure of cholecystoduodenal fistula after enterolithotomy [PDF]

, 2012
INTRODUCTIONGallstone ileus, a rare complication of cholelithiasis and cholecystitis, is a relatively rare cause of alimentary tract obstruction. It is usually associated with a cholecystoenteric fistula through which a gallstone has passed into the ...
Kawamura, Shuji, Shioi, Yoshihiro, Noro, Akihiro, Kooka, Fumishi, Ikeda, Kousei, Kiminori Kanno, Yoshihiro Shioi, Yutaka Nishinari, Akihiro Noro, Fumishi Kooka, Kanno, Kiminori, Nishinari, Yutaka, Shuji Kawamura, Kousei Ikeda   +13 more
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An Unusual Presentation of Cholecystocolonic Fistula and Subacute Colonic Obstruction

Annals of Internal Medicine: Clinical Cases
A cholecystoenteric fistula is a spontaneous tract formed between an inflamed gallbladder and surrounding gastrointestinal tract. Cholecystoenteric fistulas most commonly occur between the gallbladder and duodenum but can also occur in other areas.
James S. Barnett, Hannah M. Story, Kevin K. Yu, Salem Muayad   +3 more
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Conservative Management Enabling Spontaneous Passage of an Idiopathic Primary Spontaneous Enterolith: A Case Report and Literature Review

Clinical Case Reports, Volume 14, Issue 7, July 2026.
ABSTRACT Enterolithiasis—formation of stone concretions within the gastrointestinal tract—is an uncommon and underrecognized cause of intermittent abdominal symptoms and acute bowel obstruction. Primary (true) enteroliths originate within the bowel lumen and are usually associated with focal stasis from anatomic or inflammatory pathology; idiopathic ...
Lensa Million Baharu, Ragasa Getachew Bayisa, Zenebe Teklu Gebremariam, Esmael Mohamed Dawud, Nigusu Solomon Herego, Nahom Teklu Maru, Webi Alemayehu Tulu, Ahmedin Solomon Kedir, Tamirat Godebo Woyimo   +8 more
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Laparoscopic management of cholecystocolonic fistula: A case report and a brief literature review

, 2020
Introduction: Cholecystoenteric fistula is a rare and late complication of cholelithiasis. The clinical presentation is mostly chronic and is not distinguishable from the dyspeptic symptoms of non-complicated cholelithiasis.
Agrusa A., Buscemi S., Bonventre G., Romano G., Di Buono G.   +4 more
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