Ureterocolic Fistula Secondary to Diverticulitis of the Sigmoid Colon after Laparoscopic Salpingo-Oophorectomy: A Case Report and Literature Review

Table 1

Cases of ureterocolic fistula secondary to diverticulitis.

Author/year	Age	Sex	Underlying disease	Laterality of fistula	Management
Rodkey 1965 [10]	NS	NS	NS	NS	NS
Colcock 1972 [11]	72	F	Peritonitis due to diverticulitis	L	Died^∗
Krishna 1977 [12]	88	F	Perforation due to diverticulitis	L	Spontaneous closure
Heney 1984 [13]	80	M	NS	R	Sigmoid resection, ureter reimplantation
Noordzij 1991 [14]	74	F	Previous radiation therapy due to cervical cancer	L	Nephroureterectomy
Cirocco 1994 [15]	67	F	Chronic diverticulitis	L	Sigmoid resection, ureteral stent
Maeda 1998 [16]	45	F	Renal calculi	L	Sigmoid resection, nephroureterectomy
Osawa 2007 [17]	52	M	Peritonitis due to diverticulitis	L	Sigmoid resection, ureteral stent
Dowling 2009 [18]	79	F	Chronic diverticulitis	L	Sigmoid resection
Lang 2012 [19]	72	M	NS	L	NS
Pai 2014 [20]	80	F	Chronic diverticulitis	L	Sigmoid resection, ureteral stent
Almerie 2015 [21]	68	M	Chronic diverticulitis	R	Sigmoid resection, ureteral stent
Present	62	F	Acute diverticulitis associated with endometriosis	R	Sigmoid resection, ureter reimplantation

NS: not specified. ^∗The patient died from hemorrhage. The fistula was found at autopsy.