Mortality in a Case of Crystal Gel Ball Ingestion: An Alert for Parents

Decorative crystal gel balls are used for decoration purpose. Due to their attractive appearance they may be ingested by children. This may result in grave complications. A case of decorative crystal ball ingestion is being reported in a 6 months old infant who presented with sub acute intestinal ob...

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Autores principales: Mirza, Bilal, Sheikh, Afzal
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: EL-MED-Pub 2012
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3418032/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22953300
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description Decorative crystal gel balls are used for decoration purpose. Due to their attractive appearance they may be ingested by children. This may result in grave complications. A case of decorative crystal ball ingestion is being reported in a 6 months old infant who presented with sub acute intestinal obstruction and was operated. Crystal gel balls were causing obstruction of jejunum. Enterotomy and removal of the mass of jelly balls was done with primary closure. The patient was re-operated for anastomotic disruption on 6th postoperative day. Baby developed septicemia, and succumbed after 2 days of second operation.
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spelling pubmed-34180322012-09-05 Mortality in a Case of Crystal Gel Ball Ingestion: An Alert for Parents Mirza, Bilal Sheikh, Afzal APSP J Case Rep Case Report Decorative crystal gel balls are used for decoration purpose. Due to their attractive appearance they may be ingested by children. This may result in grave complications. A case of decorative crystal ball ingestion is being reported in a 6 months old infant who presented with sub acute intestinal obstruction and was operated. Crystal gel balls were causing obstruction of jejunum. Enterotomy and removal of the mass of jelly balls was done with primary closure. The patient was re-operated for anastomotic disruption on 6th postoperative day. Baby developed septicemia, and succumbed after 2 days of second operation. EL-MED-Pub 2012-03-01 /pmc/articles/PMC3418032/ /pubmed/22953300 Text en Copyright © 2012 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 Mortality in a Case of Crystal Gel Ball Ingestion: An Alert for Parents
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