Abstract
Patients with advanced cancer often develop enterocutaneous fistulae. The enterocutaneous fistulae usually develop from gastrointestinal malignancies. We describe a case report of a patient with schwannoma of the ovarian cyst wall who developed enterocutaneous fistula but presented with subcutaneous emphysema.
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