Toothpick—a rare cause of bowel perforation: case report and literature review

Bowel perforation is an emergency condition. Common causes of bowel perforation include infection, infarction, radiation enteritis, Crohn's disease, and cancer. Ingested foreign body causing bowel perforation is rare. Wooden toothpick-related injuries are uncommon. We report a case of ileal per...

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Autores principales: Vo, Nhu Quynh, Nguyen, Le Dung, Chau, Thi Hien Trang, Tran, Van Khoi, Nguyen, Thanh Thao
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2020
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Gastrointestinal
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7413994/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32793321
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.radcr.2020.07.034
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author Vo, Nhu Quynh
Nguyen, Le Dung
Chau, Thi Hien Trang
Tran, Van Khoi
Nguyen, Thanh Thao
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description Bowel perforation is an emergency condition. Common causes of bowel perforation include infection, infarction, radiation enteritis, Crohn's disease, and cancer. Ingested foreign body causing bowel perforation is rare. Wooden toothpick-related injuries are uncommon. We report a case of ileal perforation caused by ingested wooden toothpick preoperatively diagnosed by ultrasound and computed tomography.
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spelling pubmed-74139942020-08-12 Toothpick—a rare cause of bowel perforation: case report and literature review Vo, Nhu Quynh Nguyen, Le Dung Chau, Thi Hien Trang Tran, Van Khoi Nguyen, Thanh Thao Radiol Case Rep Gastrointestinal Bowel perforation is an emergency condition. Common causes of bowel perforation include infection, infarction, radiation enteritis, Crohn's disease, and cancer. Ingested foreign body causing bowel perforation is rare. Wooden toothpick-related injuries are uncommon. We report a case of ileal perforation caused by ingested wooden toothpick preoperatively diagnosed by ultrasound and computed tomography. Elsevier 2020-08-05 /pmc/articles/PMC7413994/ /pubmed/32793321 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.radcr.2020.07.034 Text en © 2020 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Inc. on behalf of University of Washington. 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/).
spellingShingle Gastrointestinal
Vo, Nhu Quynh
Nguyen, Le Dung
Chau, Thi Hien Trang
Tran, Van Khoi
Nguyen, Thanh Thao
Toothpick—a rare cause of bowel perforation: case report and literature review
title Toothpick—a rare cause of bowel perforation: case report and literature review
title_full Toothpick—a rare cause of bowel perforation: case report and literature review
title_fullStr Toothpick—a rare cause of bowel perforation: case report and literature review
title_full_unstemmed Toothpick—a rare cause of bowel perforation: case report and literature review
title_short Toothpick—a rare cause of bowel perforation: case report and literature review
title_sort toothpick—a rare cause of bowel perforation: case report and literature review
topic Gastrointestinal
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7413994/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32793321
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.radcr.2020.07.034
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