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Ingested Foreign Body Causing Duodenal and Colonic Perforations in a Child

Most ingested foreign bodies usually pass uneventfully through the gastrointestinal tract. Few may cause complications and require surgical interventions. We report a 1.5-year-old child who ingested hair clip and presented with vomiting and obstruction. At operation, we found duodenal and colonic pe...

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Autores principales: Garg, Dileep, Singh, Aditya Pratap, Kothari, Sunil
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: EL-MED-Pub 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5423886/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28540188
http://dx.doi.org/10.21699/ajcr.v8i3.546
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description Most ingested foreign bodies usually pass uneventfully through the gastrointestinal tract. Few may cause complications and require surgical interventions. We report a 1.5-year-old child who ingested hair clip and presented with vomiting and obstruction. At operation, we found duodenal and colonic perforations. Hair clip was removed with repair of perforations.
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spelling pubmed-54238862017-05-24 Ingested Foreign Body Causing Duodenal and Colonic Perforations in a Child Garg, Dileep Singh, Aditya Pratap Kothari, Sunil APSP J Case Rep Case Report Most ingested foreign bodies usually pass uneventfully through the gastrointestinal tract. Few may cause complications and require surgical interventions. We report a 1.5-year-old child who ingested hair clip and presented with vomiting and obstruction. At operation, we found duodenal and colonic perforations. Hair clip was removed with repair of perforations. EL-MED-Pub 2017-05-01 /pmc/articles/PMC5423886/ /pubmed/28540188 http://dx.doi.org/10.21699/ajcr.v8i3.546 Text en Copyright © 2017 Garg 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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Kothari, Sunil
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title_full Ingested Foreign Body Causing Duodenal and Colonic Perforations in a Child
title_fullStr Ingested Foreign Body Causing Duodenal and Colonic Perforations in a Child
title_full_unstemmed Ingested Foreign Body Causing Duodenal and Colonic Perforations in a Child
title_short Ingested Foreign Body Causing Duodenal and Colonic Perforations in a Child
title_sort ingested foreign body causing duodenal and colonic perforations in a child
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5423886/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28540188
http://dx.doi.org/10.21699/ajcr.v8i3.546
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