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Urological complications of regional enteritis occur frequently and may be clinically unsuspected. Radiographic findings include nephrolithiasis, characteristic stricture of the ureter, panvesiculitis, and enterovesical fistual. Less specific findings include renal amyloidosis and retroperitoneal abscesses. Mucosla nodularity of the bladder dome, even without gastrointestinal symptoms, should raise the possibility of regional enteritis. On the other hand, occult ureteral stenosis in patients with known regional enteritis may be present. For this reason, it is recommended that routine and periodic excretory urograms be a central part of the evaluation of the patient with regional enteritis.
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PMID:Urological complications of regional enteritis. 61 90

The three most common inflammatory diseases of the bowel, colonic diverticulitis, regional enteritis and ulcerative colitis, involve the bladder or ureter in the advanced stage in about 10%. The colovesical fistula is found more frequently with diverticulitis and less often with regional enteritis, which penetrates predominantly from the ileum into the bladder. On the other hand, if an ureteric stenosis develops, it will be caused on the right side mainly by regional enteritis and on the other side by ulcerative colitis. The vesicointestinal fistulae will close without sequelae after resection of the involved bowel segment. However, the ureteric stenosis will often be followed by nephrectomy despite bowel resection and ureterolysis, if the operation is not undertaken early enough. Frequent rechecks with infusion urography should help to prevent this. Nephrolithiasis, amyloidosis, and a contracted bladder are futher, yet less common complications of chronic inflammatory disease of the bowel.
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PMID:[Urologic complications od chronic inflammatory intestinal diseases]. 86 76