%0 Journal Article
%T Colo-renal fistula: An unusual cause of hematochezia
%A John D Wysocki
%A Virendra Joshi
%A John W Eiser
%A Naveed Gil
%J World Journal of Gastrointestinal Pathophysiology
%D 2010
%I Baishideng Publishing Group Co. Limited
%X A 76 year old woman with bloody stools and symptomatic anemia presented to the Emergency Department approximately 2 wk after computed tomography (CT)-guided cryoablation to a 4.5 cm renal cell carcinoma on her left posterior kidney. The patient was initially prepped for a colonoscopy to view possible causes of lower gastrointestinal bleeding. However, the patient had a CT with PO contrast that revealed a variation of a renoalimentary fistula. The patient was subsequently brought to the operating room, and it was discovered that a colo-renal fistula had formed, with transmural perforation of the posterior descending colon. A left nephrectomy, left colectomy with colostomy and Hartmann¡¯s pouch was performed.
%K Colo-renal fistula
%K Renocolic fistula
%K Hematochezia
%K Cryoablation
%K Alimentary fistula
%U http://www.wjgnet.com/2150-5330/full/v1/i3/106.htm