CT Features of Saba Senegalensis (a Tropical Fruit) in Patients with Abdominal Pain

Saba senegalensis (SS) is a well-known and commonly eaten fruit in Western Africa, especially in the rainy season when it is abundant. The ingestion of its seeds may cause abdominal pain and bowel obstruction. This cause might not be recognized by radiologists who are not aware of SS CT features. We...

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Autores principales: Diallo, Ousséini, Zongo, Nayi, Tchofo, Patrice Jissendi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Ubiquity Press 2018
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Letter to the Editor
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6095087/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30128420
http://dx.doi.org/10.5334/jbr-btr.1434
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description Saba senegalensis (SS) is a well-known and commonly eaten fruit in Western Africa, especially in the rainy season when it is abundant. The ingestion of its seeds may cause abdominal pain and bowel obstruction. This cause might not be recognized by radiologists who are not aware of SS CT features. We thus present the characteristic CT features of SS as found in patients presenting with abdominal pain and incidentally in others. We also discuss the differential diagnosis with the cowries (ornament) and other similar fruits as imaged on CT.
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spelling pubmed-60950872018-08-20 CT Features of Saba Senegalensis (a Tropical Fruit) in Patients with Abdominal Pain Diallo, Ousséini Zongo, Nayi Tchofo, Patrice Jissendi J Belg Soc Radiol Letter to the Editor Saba senegalensis (SS) is a well-known and commonly eaten fruit in Western Africa, especially in the rainy season when it is abundant. The ingestion of its seeds may cause abdominal pain and bowel obstruction. This cause might not be recognized by radiologists who are not aware of SS CT features. We thus present the characteristic CT features of SS as found in patients presenting with abdominal pain and incidentally in others. We also discuss the differential diagnosis with the cowries (ornament) and other similar fruits as imaged on CT. Ubiquity Press 2018-01-04 /pmc/articles/PMC6095087/ /pubmed/30128420 http://dx.doi.org/10.5334/jbr-btr.1434 Text en Copyright: © 2018 The Author(s) http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC-BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
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Diallo, Ousséini
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CT Features of Saba Senegalensis (a Tropical Fruit) in Patients with Abdominal Pain
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6095087/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30128420
http://dx.doi.org/10.5334/jbr-btr.1434
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