A CASE OF PERFORATION DUE TO DIVERTICULITIS IN THE SIGMOID COLON WITH COLOVESICAL AND COLORECTAL FISTULA

Abstract

A 46-year-old man admitted for acute abdomen was diagnosed with a perforative peritonitis and underwent emergency surgery. Intraoperative findings showed a perforation in the sigmoid colon, colovesical fistula and colorectal fistula. Resection of sigmoid colon, part of the bladder and rectum were performed along with colostomy.