Scans Pointed to Diverticulitis, but Surgeons Found a Woman's Appendix Had Tunneled into Her Colon

A CT scan suggested a perforated colon pouch, but surgeons found a rare fistula linking a 46-year-old woman's appendix to her sigmoid colon.

For three months, a 46-year-old woman in India lived with pain low in her abdomen. When a CT scan finally pointed to a cause, it suggested a perforation linked to diverticular disease in her sigmoid …

Originally published by Medical Daily. Read the full article →