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Fistula vs Perforation - What's the difference?

fistula | perforation |

In medicine terms the difference between fistula and perforation

is that fistula is an abnormal connection or passageway between organs or vessels that normally do not connect while perforation is an abnormal opening in an organ, such as a rupture.

fistula

English

Alternative forms

* fistule

Noun

  • (medicine) An abnormal connection or passageway between organs or vessels that normally do not connect.
  • * 1903 , William Rice Pryor, Gynæcology , page 113
    • Small fistulæ are to be closed bilaterally in an antero-posterior line
  • * 1917 , Louis Adolph Merillat, Fistula of the Withers and Poll-Evil , page 5
    • There are several reasons why a manual on this disease should be a part of the veterinary literature of the day, the chief one being that fistula of the withers is a very prevalent disease of horses and thus exacts a big toll from the horse industry.
  • * 1998', Scott Fisher, ''Enterocutaneous '''Fistulas'' , in Theodore J. Saclarides, Keith W. Millikan (editors), ''Common Surgical Diseases: An Algorithmic Approach to Problem Solving , page 164,
    • Fistulas' are abnormal communications between two epithelialized surfaces. The causes of enterocutaneous '''fistulas''' can be remembered using the mnemonic FRIEND: '''F'''oreign body, '''R'''adiation, '''I'''nflammation/Infection/Inflammatory bowel disease, '''E'''pithelialization, '''N'''eoplasm, and '''D'''istal obstruction. Fifteen to twenty-five percent of enterocutaneous ' fistulas arise spontaneously as in, for example, Crohn's disease or cancer.
  • * 2008 , Sylvia Escott-Stump, Nutrition and Diagnosis-related Care , page 405
    • An intestinal fistula is an unwanted pathway from intestines to other organs (e.g., the bladder).
  • (rare) A tube, a pipe, or a hole.

    • Usage notes

    * (medicine) The skin is regarded as an organ, so the definition includes the abnormal connection of an intenal organ to the body's exterior (as in, for example, enterocutaneous fistulas). * Sometimes, a fistula will be intentionally created; for example, an is sometimes created to ease the treatment of a patient with end stage renal failure.

    Synonyms

    * (tube) pipe, tube

    Derived terms

    * fistular * fistulous

    See also

    * ("fistula" on Wikipedia) English nouns with irregular plurals ----

    perforation

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia perforation) (en noun)
  • the act of perforating or the state of being perforated
  • any opening in a solid object
  • (medicine) an abnormal opening in an organ, such as a rupture
  • a series of holes punched through something in order to assist in separating parts
  • (mathematics) that portion of a surface that remains after an open disk is removed from it

    • Derived terms

    * perforation gauge