[Indications and contraindications to extraperitoneal closing external intestinal fistulas].

Prognostic factors of recurrent external intestinal fistulas after extraperitoneal closing them were studied in 74 patients operated on in the Sverdlovsk region clinical hospital N1 in 1990-2004. There were no lethal outcomes. Good results were noted in 40 out of 74 (54.

[Results of the treatment of external gastric and duodenal fistula].

Under consideration were results of treatment and causes of the appearance of gastric and duodenal fistulas in 37 patients. Two patients died (one of them had external gastric fistula, the other had a duodenal fistula). Complex conservative therapy gave positive effects in most cases.