High impact information on Cutaneous Fistula

• The results, if confirmed, and provided that nutritional needs are met, suggest that short-turnover proteins, particularly serum transferrin, might be useful in predicting which patients with gastrointestinal cutaneous fistulas should undergo surgery despite anatomic criteria favorable for spontaneous closure [1].
• A woman with rheumatoid arthritis developed persistent sterile drainage from a cutaneous fistula after biopsy of an inflamed supraclavicular mass [2].
• The case of a 45-year-old female patient is presented in which, over a three year period, there was a progressive loss of peri-implant bone and the formation of a periapical radiolucency with an external fistula [3].
• In a third series of experiments, we minimized the furosemide-related decrease in cardiac output by opening an external fistula between the carotid artery and jugular vein immediately after injection of furosemide [4].
• Treatment of pancreatic cutaneous fistulas with a somatostatin analog [5].

Chemical compound and disease context of Cutaneous Fistula

• Five pancreatic cutaneous fistulas were treated by subcutaneous administration of a long-acting synthetic analog of somatostatin, SMS 201-995 [5].
• Traumatic pancreatic cutaneous fistula: comparison of enteral and parenteral feedings [6].
• In this series, both of the patients reconstructed with titanium mesh presented with late persistent cutaneous fistulas [7].
• The following report describes the clinical course of an 82-year-old woman who presented with a Thorotrast induced desmoplastic reaction of her neck, complicated by pharyngeal necrosis and the development of a pharyngeal cutaneous fistula [8].
• Draining cutaneous fistula associated with infection of hydroxyapatite orbital implant [9].

Analytical, diagnostic and therapeutic context of Cutaneous Fistula

• BACKGROUND: Total parenteral nutrition and somatostatin or analogues represent a consolidated therapeutic approach for external fistulas, a frequent complication of major pancreatic surgery [10].

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