Table 7

The incidence of postoperative fistulae in patients undergoing surgery of the intestine, jejunum, ileum, colon or rectum

Organ	Pathology	Procedure	Complications (%)	Fistula rate (%)	Mortality (%)
ND, no data.
Intestine	Mixed	Emergency anastomosis	34¹¹²	3¹¹²	3¹¹²
	Mixed	Elective anastomosis	20¹¹²	2¹¹²	4¹¹²
	Gynaecological cancer	Mixed operations	31¹⁰²	6¹⁰²	6¹⁰²
Jejunum	Mixed	Upper GI surgery with jejunojejunostomy	26¹¹³	0¹¹³	6¹¹³
Ileum	Derivative ileostomy	Closure ileostomy	12⁹⁶	6⁹⁶	0⁹⁶
	Crohn's disease	Primary ileal, ileocolonic, and eventual rectal surgery	11⁹⁷	2⁹⁷	1⁹⁷
	Crohn's disease+ enterovesical fistula	Primary ileal, ileocolonic, and eventual rectal surgery	6⁹²	2⁹²	2⁹²
	Crohn's disease with fistulas	Primary ileal, ileocolonic, and eventual rectal surgery	15⁹⁸	4⁹⁸	0⁹⁸
	Crohn's disease + enterovesical fistula	Ileal+eventual sigmoid resection	13⁹⁹	1⁹⁹	0⁹⁹
Colon	Mainly cancer	Elective colectomy	9¹¹⁴	5¹¹⁴	5¹¹⁴
	Cancer (obstructive)	Emergency subtotal colectomy	20¹⁰³	0¹⁰³	9¹⁰³
	Cancer (obstructive)	Emergency left colectomy	52¹⁰³	16¹⁰³	3¹⁰³
	Diverticulitis	Emergency left colectomy	42¹⁰⁰	3¹⁰⁰	3¹⁰⁰
	IBD	Elective total colectomy	27¹⁰¹	4¹⁰¹	0¹⁰¹
	Cancer	Elective left colectomy	27¹⁰⁴ 35¹⁰⁵	1¹⁰⁵ 5¹⁰⁴	1¹⁰⁵ 7¹⁰⁴
	Cancer (obstructive)	Emergency left colectomy	ND	4 (1–7)^95,^106–¹¹⁰	6 (2–17)^95,^106–¹¹⁰
	Diverticular disease	Colocolostomy (after Hartman resection)	69⁹³	3¹⁹³	3⁹³
	Cancer	Emergency colectomy	41¹¹¹	4¹¹¹	14¹¹¹
	Diverticulitis with fistulas	Elective colectomy	31²⁹	0²⁹	0²⁹
Rectum	Rectal cancer	Proctectomy	30¹¹⁵ 43¹¹⁶	h1¹¹⁵ 12¹¹⁶	1¹¹⁶ 3¹¹⁵
	Ulcerative colitis, polyposis coli	Proctectomy with ileoanal anastomosis	56⁹⁴	19⁹⁴	0⁹⁴
	Ulcerative colitis, polyposis coli	Proctectomy with Pouch reconstruction	42⁹⁶	18⁹⁶	0⁹⁶