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Dental root canal treatment complicated by foreign body ingestion: a case report

INTRODUCTION: Most foreign bodies pass through the gastrointestinal tract uneventfully. The majority of the reported literature describes the management of ingested blunt objects. However, ingestion of sharp objects can still occur with a higher rate of perforation corresponding to treatment dilemma...

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Autores principales: Dhandapani, Ramyia G, Kumar, Susim, O'Donnell, Mark E, McNaboe, Ted, Cranley, Brian, Blake, Geoff
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2642789/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19192270
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-2-117
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author Dhandapani, Ramyia G
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O'Donnell, Mark E
McNaboe, Ted
Cranley, Brian
Blake, Geoff
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description INTRODUCTION: Most foreign bodies pass through the gastrointestinal tract uneventfully. The majority of the reported literature describes the management of ingested blunt objects. However, ingestion of sharp objects can still occur with a higher rate of perforation corresponding to treatment dilemmas. CASE PRESENTATION: We report the conservative management of an inadvertently ingested sharp foreign body during a routine dental procedure and describe a management strategy for the treatment of both blunt and sharp foreign bodies. CONCLUSION: Urgent endoscopic assessment and retrieval is indicated when there is a history of a recently ingested sharp foreign body or if clinical suspicion suggests that the object is located within the oesophagus. Conservative management is advocated if the object has passed through the pylorus with serial clinical assessments including daily radiographs. Surgical intervention is warranted in the presence of obstruction, perforation or peritonitis.
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spelling pubmed-26427892009-02-14 Dental root canal treatment complicated by foreign body ingestion: a case report Dhandapani, Ramyia G Kumar, Susim O'Donnell, Mark E McNaboe, Ted Cranley, Brian Blake, Geoff Cases J Case Report INTRODUCTION: Most foreign bodies pass through the gastrointestinal tract uneventfully. The majority of the reported literature describes the management of ingested blunt objects. However, ingestion of sharp objects can still occur with a higher rate of perforation corresponding to treatment dilemmas. CASE PRESENTATION: We report the conservative management of an inadvertently ingested sharp foreign body during a routine dental procedure and describe a management strategy for the treatment of both blunt and sharp foreign bodies. CONCLUSION: Urgent endoscopic assessment and retrieval is indicated when there is a history of a recently ingested sharp foreign body or if clinical suspicion suggests that the object is located within the oesophagus. Conservative management is advocated if the object has passed through the pylorus with serial clinical assessments including daily radiographs. Surgical intervention is warranted in the presence of obstruction, perforation or peritonitis. BioMed Central 2009-02-03 /pmc/articles/PMC2642789/ /pubmed/19192270 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-2-117 Text en Copyright ©2009 Dhandapani 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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Blake, Geoff
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title_short Dental root canal treatment complicated by foreign body ingestion: a case report
title_sort dental root canal treatment complicated by foreign body ingestion: a case report
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2642789/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19192270
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