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Portuguese
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin fistula.
Pronunciation
Noun
fístula f (plural fístulas)
- (medicine) fistula
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin fistula.
Pronunciation
Noun
fístula f (plural fístulas)
- (medicine) fistula
2003, Asociación Española de Urología, Actas Urológicas Españolas : TRASPLANTE RENAL EN PACIENTES CON ENTEROCISTOPLAS…:El caso 3 presentó una fístula urinaria secundaria a desinserción del uréter al asa ileal que precisó reimplantar el uréter a la neovejiga colónica, descubriéndose en esta cirugía una litiasis en el uréter proximal del injerto que conseguimos extraer mediante ureterolitotomía.- Case #3 presented a urinary fistula following disinsertion of the ureter to the ileal conduit which necessitated reimplanting the ureter to the colonic neobladder, uncovering during the surgery a lithiasis in the graft's proximal ureter which we managed to extract by ureterolithotomy.
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