Large bowel obstruction due to sesame seed bezoar: a case report

We report a case of a 79 year old man with a known benign anastomotic stricture presenting with large bowel obstruction. At laparotomy the obstruction was found to be caused by a large sesame seed bezoar. Seed bezoars are well known to cause impaction in the rectum but have never been previously rep...

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Autores principales: Shaw, Aidan G, Peacock, Oliver, Lund, Jonathan N, Tierney, Gillian M, Larvin, Mike, Speake, William
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2007
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2216034/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18047637
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1752-1947-1-159
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author Shaw, Aidan G
Peacock, Oliver
Lund, Jonathan N
Tierney, Gillian M
Larvin, Mike
Speake, William
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Peacock, Oliver
Lund, Jonathan N
Tierney, Gillian M
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Speake, William
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description We report a case of a 79 year old man with a known benign anastomotic stricture presenting with large bowel obstruction. At laparotomy the obstruction was found to be caused by a large sesame seed bezoar. Seed bezoars are well known to cause impaction in the rectum but have never been previously reported to cause large bowel obstruction. We recommend that patients with known large bowel strictures should be advised not to eat seeds as this could ultimately lead to obstruction, ischaemia or perforation.
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spelling pubmed-22160342008-01-29 Large bowel obstruction due to sesame seed bezoar: a case report Shaw, Aidan G Peacock, Oliver Lund, Jonathan N Tierney, Gillian M Larvin, Mike Speake, William J Med Case Reports Case Report We report a case of a 79 year old man with a known benign anastomotic stricture presenting with large bowel obstruction. At laparotomy the obstruction was found to be caused by a large sesame seed bezoar. Seed bezoars are well known to cause impaction in the rectum but have never been previously reported to cause large bowel obstruction. We recommend that patients with known large bowel strictures should be advised not to eat seeds as this could ultimately lead to obstruction, ischaemia or perforation. BioMed Central 2007-11-29 /pmc/articles/PMC2216034/ /pubmed/18047637 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1752-1947-1-159 Text en Copyright © 2007 Shaw et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Shaw, Aidan G
Peacock, Oliver
Lund, Jonathan N
Tierney, Gillian M
Larvin, Mike
Speake, William
Large bowel obstruction due to sesame seed bezoar: a case report
title Large bowel obstruction due to sesame seed bezoar: a case report
title_full Large bowel obstruction due to sesame seed bezoar: a case report
title_fullStr Large bowel obstruction due to sesame seed bezoar: a case report
title_full_unstemmed Large bowel obstruction due to sesame seed bezoar: a case report
title_short Large bowel obstruction due to sesame seed bezoar: a case report
title_sort large bowel obstruction due to sesame seed bezoar: a case report
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2216034/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18047637
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1752-1947-1-159
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