Open Safety Pin Ingestion Presenting as Incarcerated Umbilical Hernia

Foreign body ingestion is common in children. Sharp foreign bodies are potentially harmful and can result various complications. An 8-month-old infant presented with incarcerated umbilical hernia. With a suspicion of strangulation, operation was performed that revealed a loop of ileum being stuck in...

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Autores principales: Mirza, Bilal, Sheikh, Afzal
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: EL-MED-Pub 2011
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3418029/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22953292
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description Foreign body ingestion is common in children. Sharp foreign bodies are potentially harmful and can result various complications. An 8-month-old infant presented with incarcerated umbilical hernia. With a suspicion of strangulation, operation was performed that revealed a loop of ileum being stuck in the umbilical defect. The loop of ileum was freed from the umbilicus which demonstrated open ends of safety pin piercing out of bowel lumen. The enterotomy followed by removal of safety pin was performed.
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spelling pubmed-34180292012-09-05 Open Safety Pin Ingestion Presenting as Incarcerated Umbilical Hernia Mirza, Bilal Sheikh, Afzal APSP J Case Rep Case Report Foreign body ingestion is common in children. Sharp foreign bodies are potentially harmful and can result various complications. An 8-month-old infant presented with incarcerated umbilical hernia. With a suspicion of strangulation, operation was performed that revealed a loop of ileum being stuck in the umbilical defect. The loop of ileum was freed from the umbilicus which demonstrated open ends of safety pin piercing out of bowel lumen. The enterotomy followed by removal of safety pin was performed. EL-MED-Pub 2011-11-27 /pmc/articles/PMC3418029/ /pubmed/22953292 Text en Copyright © 2011 Mirza et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ 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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title_short Open Safety Pin Ingestion Presenting as Incarcerated Umbilical Hernia
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