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Two Unusual Gastrointestinal Foreign Bodies

Author(s) -

Ahmed H. AlSalem

Publication year - 2011

Publication title -

isrn surgery

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 2090-5793

pISSN - 2090-5785

DOI - 10.5402/2011/187343

Subject(s) - medicine , gastrostomy , enteral administration , complication , gastrostomy tube , foreign bodies , leak , surgery , tube (container) , feeding tube , general surgery , parenteral nutrition , engineering , mechanical engineering , environmental engineering

Swallowed foreign bodies are common in the pediatric age group, but fortunately, the majority of them pass spontaneously without any adverse effects. Tube gastrostomy is an excellent method to provide prolonged enteral feeding. It is, however, associated with complications, namely, intraperitoneal leak and distal migration of the gastrostomy tube causing gastric outlet obstruction. This paper describes two unusual gastrointestinal foreign bodies, one was swallowed, while the other one was a complication of a tube gastrostomy.

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