When traditions become dangerous: Intestinal perforation from unusual foreign body—Case report and short literature review

Gastrointestinal perforation (GI) is a common cause of acute abdomen in the emergency department that needs a prompt surgery intervention. Nowadays, CT examinations represent the method of choice to image patients with acute abdominal pain in emergency. GI perforations by foreign bodies ingested is...

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Autores principales: Simonetti, I., Puglia, M., Tarotto, L., Palumbo, F., Esposito, F., Sciuto, A., Palumbo, L., Ragozzino, A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6475829/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31024984
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ejro.2019.04.002
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author Simonetti, I.
Puglia, M.
Tarotto, L.
Palumbo, F.
Esposito, F.
Sciuto, A.
Palumbo, L.
Ragozzino, A.
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Puglia, M.
Tarotto, L.
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Palumbo, L.
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description Gastrointestinal perforation (GI) is a common cause of acute abdomen in the emergency department that needs a prompt surgery intervention. Nowadays, CT examinations represent the method of choice to image patients with acute abdominal pain in emergency. GI perforations by foreign bodies ingested is rare and only <1% of ingested foreign bodies are believed to cause perforation of GI. MDCT is to be considered the best imaging method for identifying foreign bodies, the perforation site and the surgical treatment to be planned reliably. We presente a case of 70-year-old lady presented to our Emergency Department with acute abdominal pain.
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spelling pubmed-64758292019-04-25 When traditions become dangerous: Intestinal perforation from unusual foreign body—Case report and short literature review Simonetti, I. Puglia, M. Tarotto, L. Palumbo, F. Esposito, F. Sciuto, A. Palumbo, L. Ragozzino, A. Eur J Radiol Open Article Gastrointestinal perforation (GI) is a common cause of acute abdomen in the emergency department that needs a prompt surgery intervention. Nowadays, CT examinations represent the method of choice to image patients with acute abdominal pain in emergency. GI perforations by foreign bodies ingested is rare and only <1% of ingested foreign bodies are believed to cause perforation of GI. MDCT is to be considered the best imaging method for identifying foreign bodies, the perforation site and the surgical treatment to be planned reliably. We presente a case of 70-year-old lady presented to our Emergency Department with acute abdominal pain. Elsevier 2019-04-17 /pmc/articles/PMC6475829/ /pubmed/31024984 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ejro.2019.04.002 Text en © 2019 The Authors http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ejro.2019.04.002
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