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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...
Autores principales: | Jo, Min Hyeong, Namgung, Hwan |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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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 |
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