[Spontaneous intestinal biliodigestive fistula and its treatment (author's transl)].

The current clinical and therapeutic status of spontaneous intestinal biliodigestive fistulae in 14 of the author's own cases is presented. Two groups are distinguished: those "short-circuit" connections to the gastro-intestinal tract due to biliary disease--the biliodigestive fistula in the narrower sense as well as enterobiliary fistulae caused by gastro-intestinal disease. Differences in etiology, clinical presentation, therapy and operative lethality make it seem advisable to form two categories, A and B, and to compare the one with the others.