ArticleThe British journal of radiology2012
Imaging features of colovesical fistulae on MRI.
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- Renal and Urological Disorders Associated With Inflammatory Bowel Disease.Inflammatory bowel diseases · 2023Review
- Colon cancer with colovesical fistula: A report of four cases and a literature review.Oncology letters · 2023Article
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- Positive outcomes with neoadjuvant chemotherapy in the management of colovesical fistula in cancer: a case report and literature review.Frontiers in pharmacology · 2023Article
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- Evaluation of genitourinary fistulas in pelvic malignancies with etiopathologic correlation: role of cross sectional imaging in detection and management.The British journal of radiology · 2020Article
- When the bowel meets the bladder: Optimal management of colorectal pathology with urological involvement.World journal of gastrointestinal surgery · 2020Review
- Appearance of a colovesical fistula at cystoscopy.Clinical case reports · 2015Article
- Enterovesical fistulae: aetiology, imaging, and management.Gastroenterology research and practice · 2013Review
- Iatrogenic Vesicojejunal Fistula Six Years Following Subtotal Hysterectomy: Diagnostic Challenges and Management.Nigerian medical journal : journal of the Nigeria Medical AssociationArticle
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Abstract
objectivesMRI is routinely used in the investigation of colovesical fistulae at our institute. Several papers have alluded to its usefulness in achieving the diagnosis; however, there is a paucity of literature on its imaging findings. Our objective was to quantify the MRI characteristics of these fistulae.
methodsWe selected all cases over a 4-year period with a final clinical diagnosis of colovesical fistula which had been investigated with MRI. The MRI scans were reviewed in a consensus fashion by two consultant uroradiologists. Their MRI features were quantified.
resultsThere were 40 cases of colovesical fistulae. On MRI, the fistula morphology consistently fell into three patterns. The most common pattern (71%) demonstrated an intervening abscess between the bowel wall and bladder wall. The second pattern (15%) had a visible track between the affected bowel and bladder. The third pattern (13%) was a complete loss of fat plane between the affected bladder and bowel wall. MRI correctly determined the underlying aetiology in 63% of cases.
conclusionsMRI is a useful imaging modality in the diagnosis of colovesical fistulae. The fistulae appear to have three characteristic morphological patterns that may aid future diagnoses of colovesical fistulae. To the authors' knowledge, this is the first publication of the MRI findings in colovesical fistulae.
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