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Data on the treatment of incomplete intestinal fistulas in 86 patients are presented. In 34 patients the incomplete intestinal fistulas were formed on the duodenum after a resection of the stomach. Tampons were responsible for the formation of small intestine incomplete fistulas in 47 patients. The operative treatment was used in 10 of 86 patients with incomplete intestinal fistulas, better results being obtained in the patients operated upon within the first three days after the appearance of the fistula. In cases with incomplete small intestine fistulas 54 patients died of 76; with colonic fistulas 4 of 10 patients died.

The authors describe external intestinal fistulae found within 11 years at 5000 urgent operations on abdominal organs in 56 patients. 20 of them showed fistulae of appendicular origin, 15 developed fistulae following various traumas of abdominal organs, 1--after intestinal ileus, in 3 cases fistulae were due to incarceration of hernia, in 17 cases external fistulae were applied in intestinal neoplasms. Small gut fistulae were noted in 15, colon fistulae--in 41 patients. The total of 19 patients died, most of them had malignant intestinal neoplasms.

During 16 years operations were performed on 423 patients with peptic ulcers of anastomoses, in 13 of them the disease was complicated by gastro-intestinal-colonic fistulas. Of 7 patients operated upon during first 11 years four patients died, of 6 patients operated upon during the second period (the last 5 years) there were no lethal outcomes. The less lethality was due to using less traumatic operations and longer preparing the patients for operations.