Small Bowel Obstruction in a Virgin Abdomen: A Case Report

Small bowel obstruction (SBO) is a major cause of morbidity and financial burden in hospitals around the world. Foreign body (FB) ingestion as a cause is rare. While most cases are straight forward, some can be extremely subtle. We present a case of SBO caused by an undigested piece of pineapple cor...

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Autores principales: Ahmed, Mohamed, Habis, Saba, Saeed, Rasha, Mahmoud, Ahmed, Attar, Naseem
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2019
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Emergency Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6609295/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31309019
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.4594
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author Ahmed, Mohamed
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Mahmoud, Ahmed
Attar, Naseem
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description Small bowel obstruction (SBO) is a major cause of morbidity and financial burden in hospitals around the world. Foreign body (FB) ingestion as a cause is rare. While most cases are straight forward, some can be extremely subtle. We present a case of SBO caused by an undigested piece of pineapple core.
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spelling pubmed-66092952019-07-15 Small Bowel Obstruction in a Virgin Abdomen: A Case Report Ahmed, Mohamed Habis, Saba Saeed, Rasha Mahmoud, Ahmed Attar, Naseem Cureus Emergency Medicine Small bowel obstruction (SBO) is a major cause of morbidity and financial burden in hospitals around the world. Foreign body (FB) ingestion as a cause is rare. While most cases are straight forward, some can be extremely subtle. We present a case of SBO caused by an undigested piece of pineapple core. Cureus 2019-05-03 /pmc/articles/PMC6609295/ /pubmed/31309019 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.4594 Text en Copyright © 2019, Ahmed et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Small Bowel Obstruction in a Virgin Abdomen: A Case Report
title Small Bowel Obstruction in a Virgin Abdomen: A Case Report
title_full Small Bowel Obstruction in a Virgin Abdomen: A Case Report
title_fullStr Small Bowel Obstruction in a Virgin Abdomen: A Case Report
title_full_unstemmed Small Bowel Obstruction in a Virgin Abdomen: A Case Report
title_short Small Bowel Obstruction in a Virgin Abdomen: A Case Report
title_sort small bowel obstruction in a virgin abdomen: a case report
topic Emergency Medicine
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6609295/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31309019
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.4594
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