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. 2017 Sep 29;8(6):537–548. doi: 10.1007/s13244-017-0572-3

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Fig. 1 — Two fistulography examples. A Fistulography performed via a catheter piercing through the external fistulous opening (EFO) in a 74-year-old man with history of repeated surgeries to manage bowel obstruction, adhesions and anastomotic dehiscence: optimal visualisation of course and length of the enterocutaneous fistula (ECF, arrow), in communication with the ileum. B Fistulography using a needle in a 60-year-old HIV-positive man with recent acute colonic diverticulitis: the ECF (arrow) communicating with the sigmoid colon required left hemicolectomy and ECF debridement