A CASE OF INTRACTABLE INTESTINAL FISTULA AFTER AN OPERATION FOR ACUTE APPENDICITIS TREATED BY ENDOSCOPIC CLOSURE OF THE ORIFICE OF THE APPENDIX

Abstract

A 23-year-old man who had underwent appendectomy for acute appendicitis developed intestinal fistula arising from the appendiceal stump. Conservative theraphy was unsuccesful and the fistula was closed by endoscopic closure of the orifice of the appendix. Enterocutaneous fistula after appendectomy was rare. However, this type of fistula was intractable and often requires a reoperation, we suggest that the endoscopic approach is one of the options for the treatment of intractable fistula of postappendectomy.