Kusunoki M, Shoji Y, Yanagi H, Yamamura T, Utsunomiya J
Second Department of Surgery, Hyogo College of Medicine, Japan.
Hepatogastroenterology. 1996 Sep-Oct;43(11):1339-42.
A 44-year-old female with rectal cancer underwent anoabdominal rectal resection and colonic J pouch-anal anastomosis after preoperative intraluminal brachytherapy. Pelvic sepsis developed a rectovaginal fistula. We attempted to close the fistula and restore the anal function with coloanal re-anastomosis and bilateral gluteus maximus transposition. She regained good anal function without recurrence of the fistula.