Friday: Fish Day

A 78-year-old man presented with diffuse abdominal pain, localized peritonitis and raised inflammatory markers. CT revealed an mesentery abcess with a linear high density structure in continuity with the adjacent small bowel lumen. Laparoscopy showed a perforation by a fish bone. Gastrointestinal tr...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Hoste, Pieter, Mortele, Koenraad, Lemmerling, Marc, Dewilde, Dirk, De Backer, Adelard
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Ubiquity Press 2016
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6100616/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30151447
http://dx.doi.org/10.5334/jbr-btr.1047
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Sumario:A 78-year-old man presented with diffuse abdominal pain, localized peritonitis and raised inflammatory markers. CT revealed an mesentery abcess with a linear high density structure in continuity with the adjacent small bowel lumen. Laparoscopy showed a perforation by a fish bone. Gastrointestinal tract perforation by foreign body ingestion is rare complication (1%). There are some risk factors and prefered locations of perforation. Time interval between ingestion and complication can vary extremely.

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