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Successful Endoscopic Removal of a Swallowed Toothbrush: Case Report

Most ingested foreign bodies will pass uneventfully through the gastrointestinal tract. Nevertheless, long and rigid foreign bodies are associated with an increased risk of gastrointestinal impaction, perforation and bleeding. Moreover, there has been no case of spontaneous passage of a toothbrush r...

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Autores principales: Tonkic, Ante, Bogdanovic, Zoran, Grandić, Leo
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: S. Karger AG 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3080583/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21512617
http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000326962