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Residual terminal bowel fistulating into the alimentary tract: a hitherto unreported complication of surgery for anorectal malformation
  1. Sudipta Sen1,
  2. Pavai Arunachalam1,
  3. Cenita J Sam1,
  4. Harshjeet Singh Bal2
  1. 1Department of Paediatric Surgery, PSG Institute of Medical Sciences and Research, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India
  2. 2Department of Paediatric Surgery, Christian Medical College, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India
  1. Correspondence to Dr Harshjeet Singh Bal, balharsh{at}gmail.com

Summary

The residual terminal bowel after pull-through surgery for anorectal malformation has been reported to cause urinary complications. We report two boys where residual bowel has fistulated postoperatively into the alimentary tract causing metabolic and septic complication in one and a large pelvic mass with urinary and rectal obstruction in the other.

https://doi.org/10.1136/bcr-2016-218986

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    • Contributors SS, PA, CJS and HSB contributed to conception and design of the manuscript, acquisition and interpretation of data and also drafted the article or revising it critically for important intellectual content. All authors approved the final submitted version of the manuscript.

    • Competing interests None declared.

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    • Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; externally peer reviewed.