A Right-Angled Thorn in the Bowel: A Curious Case of Small Bowel Perforation

We present a 45-year-old man with small bowel perforation resulting from the inadvertent ingestion of a right-angled thorn of the Gum Arabic plant (Vachellia nilotica). The diagnosis was made, and an emergency laparotomy was performed for suspected enteric peritonitis. The thorn was found projecting...

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Autores principales: Mohanty, Debajyoti, Dugar, Dharmendra, Waliya, Asish
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2023
Materias:
Emergency Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10517881/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37750116
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.44068

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10517881/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37750116
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.44068

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