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Umbilical intestinal fistula (acquired)

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An acquired umbilical-intestinal fistula is usually the result of metastases at the umbilicus becoming attached to and infiltrating the underlying bowel.

Subsequent necrosis of the tumour tissue causes the fistula.


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