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Duodenal perforation due to toothpick perforation, an uncommon cause of chronic abdominal pain.
A 55-year-old woman presented with a 3month history of chronic left upper quadrant abdominal pain. She had no previous medical history. Her symptoms were not associatedwith nausea or emesis. Physical examination showed an afebrile patient with left upper quadrant abdominal tenderness. Laboratory tests demonstrated an elevated white cell count of 15000/μL (normal range4000–10000/μL). C reactive ...
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Background Foreign body ingestion is a relatively common in children. Most ingested foreign bodies spontaneously pass out of the body via the gastrointestinal (GI) system but sharp materials may perforate the GI tract and need to surgical intervention. Case Presentation The patient was a 9-year-old girl with progressive abdominal pain for one month and admitted with acute abdomen impression. S...
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Foreign body ingestion is commonly encountered in the emergency department. Although in most cases, the ingested object will pass uneventfully in the feces [1], ingestion of sharp foreign bodies such as dental plates, sewing needles, toothpicks, fish bones and chicken bones carries increased risk of gastrointestinal perforation [2, 3, 4]. The use of toothpicks as both tooth-clearing implements ...
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We present the case of a 23-year-old man who consulted in the emergency department 6 days after ingesting a wooden toothpick with features of a localized peritonitis in the left upper quadrant of the abdomen. Surgical exploration revealed a perforation of the splenic flexure of the colon by the toothpick during its migration. This rare case is analysed in the light of the current literature. Th...
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PERFORATION of the healthy caecum is an uncommon condition. It may occur as a result of distal large bowel obstruction, unrelieved volvulus of the caecum, trauma to the right side of the abdomen, or ingested foreign bodies, e.g. a fish-bone or tooth-pick. Spontaneous perforation of the caecum in the absence of any of the above factors is exceedingly rare. In an extensive search of the English l...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of the Belgian Society of Radiology
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1780-2393
DOI: 10.5334/jbr-btr.9