Fishbone-Induced Appendicitis: A Case Report

Fishbone ingestion is quite common. Most of the time, patients are asymptomatic and the fish bone exits the gastrointestinal tract spontaneously. However, in some rare cases, it can drop in the appendix and induce appendicitis or even appendicitis with perforation. Herein, we report the unusual case...

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Autores principales: Harhar, Marouane, Jabi, Rachid, El Harroudi, Tijani, Bouziane, Mohammed
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2021
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General Surgery
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8202442/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34150371
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.15003
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author Harhar, Marouane
Jabi, Rachid
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description Fishbone ingestion is quite common. Most of the time, patients are asymptomatic and the fish bone exits the gastrointestinal tract spontaneously. However, in some rare cases, it can drop in the appendix and induce appendicitis or even appendicitis with perforation. Herein, we report the unusual case of an 18-year-old woman, who presented with acute right lower abdominal pain. Computed tomography suggested the presence of acute appendicitis with a linear foreign body of 3 cm in length. The patient underwent an open appendectomy and removal of the fish bone without stigmata of perforation. The postoperative course was uneventful.
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spelling pubmed-82024422021-06-17 Fishbone-Induced Appendicitis: A Case Report Harhar, Marouane Jabi, Rachid El Harroudi, Tijani Bouziane, Mohammed Cureus General Surgery Fishbone ingestion is quite common. Most of the time, patients are asymptomatic and the fish bone exits the gastrointestinal tract spontaneously. However, in some rare cases, it can drop in the appendix and induce appendicitis or even appendicitis with perforation. Herein, we report the unusual case of an 18-year-old woman, who presented with acute right lower abdominal pain. Computed tomography suggested the presence of acute appendicitis with a linear foreign body of 3 cm in length. The patient underwent an open appendectomy and removal of the fish bone without stigmata of perforation. The postoperative course was uneventful. Cureus 2021-05-13 /pmc/articles/PMC8202442/ /pubmed/34150371 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.15003 Text en Copyright © 2021, Harhar et al. https://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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title_fullStr Fishbone-Induced Appendicitis: A Case Report
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title_short Fishbone-Induced Appendicitis: A Case Report
title_sort fishbone-induced appendicitis: a case report
topic General Surgery
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8202442/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34150371
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.15003
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