Journal: | Revista do Colegio Brasileiro de Cirurgioes |
Database: | PERIÓDICA |
System number: | 000131251 |
ISSN: | 0100-6991 |
Authors: | Macedo, Jefferson Soares de1 Castro, Estevao Garcia Tamura, Sergio Mendes, Murilo Boavista Pessoa |
Institutions: | 1Hosp. Forcas Armadas, Brasilia, Distrito Federal. Brasil |
Year: | 1998 |
Season: | Ene-Feb |
Volumen: | 25 |
Number: | 1 |
Pages: | 61-63 |
Country: | Brasil |
Language: | Portugués |
Document type: | Artículo |
Approach: | Caso clínico |
English abstract | The foreign body ingestion ocurrs often with children, olds, psychiatrics patients, prisoners or after excessive alcoholic ingestion. Most of foreign bodies (80-90%) passes spontaneously, 10 a 20% have to be removed by endoscopy and only one per cent (1%) needs to be removed by surgery. The authors report a case of a 49-year-old woman who swallowed a needle which impacted in cecum. The patient had psychosis maniac-depressive and swallowed the foreign body aiming self-damage. The presence of foreign body in cecum is rare because of physiologic straitments in the gastrointestinal tract. The ingestion of needle corresponds six percent (6%) of swallowed objects aiming self-damage. Colonoscopy served for localization the foreign body and its withdrawal with success. Colonoscopy for removing foreign bodies is a safe and cheap procedure |
Disciplines: | Medicina |
Keyword: | Cirugía, Gastroenterología, Cuerpos extraños, Colon |
Keyword: | Medicine, Gastroenterology, Surgery, Colon, Foreign bodies |
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