First report of a colopancreatic fistula in Crohn’s Disease
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Penetrating complication in Crohn's Disease in the sense of
a fistula occurs in about 35% of patients with Crohn's disease.
A recent population-based database analysis estimated the cu-
mulative incidence of fistulizing CD at 20 years from diagnosis
to be 50%, of which 31% were internal abdominal fistulae [1].
While some of them are rather common (entero-sigmoid or
entero-entero fistulae), others are rarely encountered (e.g. en-
tero- or colon-duodenal) [2].
Here, we report a case of a patient with a colopancreatic fis-
tula in Crohn's colitis mimicking a cancer of the left flexure. To
the best of our knowledge, there is no existing written evidence
describing a histopathologically proven colo-pancreatic fistula.
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Austin journal of clinical case reports, 11, 1, Austin Publishing Group, Secaucus, NJ, 2024, https://doi.org/10.26420/AUSTINJCLINCASEREP.2024.1312