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Endoscopic removal of a toothpick perforating the sigmoid colon and causing chronic abdominal pain: a case report

Toothpick ingestion is implicated in gut injuries which may cause severe complications, mimicking diseases causing acute abdomen. However, toothpick ingestion-related perforation may also cause mild, non-specific gastrointestinal symptoms without significant findings or major complications. We descr...

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Autores principales: Zezos, Petros, Oikonomou, Anastasia, Souftas, Vasilios, Gkotsis, Dimitrios, Pitiakoudis, Michail, Kouklakis, Georgios
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cases Network Ltd 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2769444/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19918434
http://dx.doi.org/10.4076/1757-1626-2-8469