[General principles of clinical and therapeutic management in postoperative external enteral fistulas]. / Principii generale de management clinico-terapeutic in fistulele enterale externe post-operatorii.

ABSTRACT

Postoperative enterocutaneous fistulas represent a frequent complication in the emergency or cancerous digestive surgery. As to the high level of mortality and morbidity caused by this type of postoperative complication (4%), efforts are made to establish the principles of therapeutic management, on the purpose of decreasing these indicators and thus lowering the prolonged hospitalisation afferent costs.