Pictorial essay: Complications of a swallowed fish bone

Unintentional ingestion of a fishbone (FB) is common, especially in populations with a high consumption of seafood. In most instances, the ingested FB passes uneventfully through the gastrointestinal (GI) tract, usually within a week. However, in certain cases, the FB may become impacted and lead to...

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Autores principales: Bathla, Girish, Teo, Lynette LS, Dhanda, Sunita
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2011
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Multi-Organ
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3056375/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21431037
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0971-3026.76061
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description Unintentional ingestion of a fishbone (FB) is common, especially in populations with a high consumption of seafood. In most instances, the ingested FB passes uneventfully through the gastrointestinal (GI) tract, usually within a week. However, in certain cases, the FB may become impacted and lead to complications. Awareness of these complications is important as patients usually present with nonspecific symptoms and could be unaware of having ingested an FB.
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spelling pubmed-30563752011-03-22 Pictorial essay: Complications of a swallowed fish bone Bathla, Girish Teo, Lynette LS Dhanda, Sunita Indian J Radiol Imaging Multi-Organ Unintentional ingestion of a fishbone (FB) is common, especially in populations with a high consumption of seafood. In most instances, the ingested FB passes uneventfully through the gastrointestinal (GI) tract, usually within a week. However, in certain cases, the FB may become impacted and lead to complications. Awareness of these complications is important as patients usually present with nonspecific symptoms and could be unaware of having ingested an FB. Medknow Publications 2011 /pmc/articles/PMC3056375/ /pubmed/21431037 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0971-3026.76061 Text en © Indian Journal of Radiology and Imaging http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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