Small-bowel obstruction owing to kitchen sponge eating as a pica behavior: A case report

Small-bowel feces sign is useful to detect the corresponding site of stenosis or obstruction in patients with moderate and high degrees of small-bowel obstruction. The CT findings of kitchen sponge are very similar to small-bowel feces sign. With careful image interpretation, it is possible to judge...

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Autores principales: Yoshida, Rika, Tanaka, Shota, Yoshizako, Takeshi, Ando, Shinji, Mukumoto, Hidemitsu, Takinami, Yoshikazu, Kitagaki, Hajime
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2019
Materias:
Gastrointestinal
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6629919/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31338134
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.radcr.2019.06.010
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Sumario:Small-bowel feces sign is useful to detect the corresponding site of stenosis or obstruction in patients with moderate and high degrees of small-bowel obstruction. The CT findings of kitchen sponge are very similar to small-bowel feces sign. With careful image interpretation, it is possible to judge whether the cause of obstruction is sponge. We report a case of a 26-year-old man small-bowel obstruction due to kitchen sponge eating as pica behavior, focusing on image findings.

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