Swallowed dental bridge causing ileal perforation: a case report

We report the case of a 53 year old gentleman who had accidentally swallowed his dental bridge. One week following this he experienced a sudden onset of generalised abdominal pain and underwent laparotomy. At operation he was found to have a distal ileal perforation and an ileocaecal resection was p...

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Autores principales: Rashid, Farhan, Simpson, John, Ananthakrishnan, G, Tierney, Gillian M
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2008
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2630321/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19077287
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-1-392
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Ananthakrishnan, G
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description We report the case of a 53 year old gentleman who had accidentally swallowed his dental bridge. One week following this he experienced a sudden onset of generalised abdominal pain and underwent laparotomy. At operation he was found to have a distal ileal perforation and an ileocaecal resection was performed. Although most swallowed foreign bodies pass through the gastrointestinal tract without problem, serious complications including intestinal perforation can occur.
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spelling pubmed-26303212009-01-24 Swallowed dental bridge causing ileal perforation: a case report Rashid, Farhan Simpson, John Ananthakrishnan, G Tierney, Gillian M Cases J Case Report We report the case of a 53 year old gentleman who had accidentally swallowed his dental bridge. One week following this he experienced a sudden onset of generalised abdominal pain and underwent laparotomy. At operation he was found to have a distal ileal perforation and an ileocaecal resection was performed. Although most swallowed foreign bodies pass through the gastrointestinal tract without problem, serious complications including intestinal perforation can occur. BioMed Central 2008-12-12 /pmc/articles/PMC2630321/ /pubmed/19077287 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-1-392 Text en Copyright © 2008 Rashid 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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title Swallowed dental bridge causing ileal perforation: a case report
title_full Swallowed dental bridge causing ileal perforation: a case report
title_fullStr Swallowed dental bridge causing ileal perforation: a case report
title_full_unstemmed Swallowed dental bridge causing ileal perforation: a case report
title_short Swallowed dental bridge causing ileal perforation: a case report
title_sort swallowed dental bridge causing ileal perforation: a case report
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2630321/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19077287
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-1-392
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