Toothpick ingestion and migration into the liver through the colonic hepatic flexure: case presentation, management, and literature review

The approach to toothpick ingestion and its complications should not be underestimated. The surgeon should be prepared for life‐threatening situations such as major vascular involvement, as well as highly specialized and technically challenging procedures, when the hepatic hilum is involved for inst...

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Autores principales: El Asmar, Antoine, Papas, Yasmine, Hajj, Imad, El Khoury, Mansour
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2017
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Case Reports
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5771916/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29375863
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.1315
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spelling pubmed-57719162018-01-26 Toothpick ingestion and migration into the liver through the colonic hepatic flexure: case presentation, management, and literature review El Asmar, Antoine Papas, Yasmine Hajj, Imad El Khoury, Mansour Clin Case Rep Case Reports The approach to toothpick ingestion and its complications should not be underestimated. The surgeon should be prepared for life‐threatening situations such as major vascular involvement, as well as highly specialized and technically challenging procedures, when the hepatic hilum is involved for instance. Referral to tertiary centers is sometimes mandatory. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2017-12-11 /pmc/articles/PMC5771916/ /pubmed/29375863 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.1315 Text en © 2017 The Authors. Clinical Case Reports published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution‐NonCommercial‐NoDerivs (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non‐commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made.
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title Toothpick ingestion and migration into the liver through the colonic hepatic flexure: case presentation, management, and literature review
title_full Toothpick ingestion and migration into the liver through the colonic hepatic flexure: case presentation, management, and literature review
title_fullStr Toothpick ingestion and migration into the liver through the colonic hepatic flexure: case presentation, management, and literature review
title_full_unstemmed Toothpick ingestion and migration into the liver through the colonic hepatic flexure: case presentation, management, and literature review
title_short Toothpick ingestion and migration into the liver through the colonic hepatic flexure: case presentation, management, and literature review
title_sort toothpick ingestion and migration into the liver through the colonic hepatic flexure: case presentation, management, and literature review
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5771916/
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