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Clinical Radiology

Volume 38, Issue 4, July 1987, Pages 431-433
Clinical Radiology

Case report: Spontaneous healing of a gastro-colic fistula due to a benign gastric ulcer

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Gastro-colic fistula is an uncommon complication of a benign gastric ulcer (Laufer et al., 1976). The commonest causes of a gastro-colic fistula are carcinoma of the stomach, carcinoma of the colon and previous gastric surgery for peptic ulcer disease (Allison, 1973; Cody et al., 1975) and surgery is the treatment of choice.

We report a case of gastro-colic fistula due to a benign gastric ulcer, which healed spontaneously without treatment. Only one previous case of spontaneous healing of a gastro-colic fistula has been described (Rivera, 1972) and this patient subsequently had surgery to exclude an underlying malignant disease.

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