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Toothpick Colon Injury Mimicking Colonic Diverticulitis

Although toothpick ingestion is rare, it can lead to fatal complications in the gastrointestinal tract. Diagnosing toothpick ingestion is difficult because most patients do not recall swallowing one. We report 2 cases of toothpick-ingestion-induced colon injury, mimicking diverticulitis. The first p...

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Autores principales: Jo, Min Hyeong, Namgung, Hwan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Korean Society of Coloproctology 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6046542/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29991205
http://dx.doi.org/10.3393/ac.2018.04.23