J A Robbins, J D Ashmore
During the last ten years, 14 patients with proven aortoenteric fistulas were admitted to the Greenville Hospital System, a community system of 1200 beds in four units serving a county of 250,000 residents. The experience obtained is tabulated, and illustrative case reports are used to emphasize the diagnostic and treatment problems inherent in this group of patients. It is obvious that two major manifestations result when intra-abdomial vascular prostheses communicate with some portion of the gastrointestinal tract...
March 1984: Diseases of the Colon and Rectum