• Ulus Travma Acil Cer · Jul 2010

    Case Reports

    Delayed complete gastric outlet obstruction due to a dinner fork: report of a case.

    • Koray Atila, Tarkan Unek, Ali Ibrahim Sevinç, Baki Aydoğan, Ayfer Serin, Seymen Bora, and Hüseyin Gülay.
    • Department of General Surgery, Dokuz Eylul University, Faculty of Medicine, Izmir, Turkey. katila@deu.edu.tr
    • Ulus Travma Acil Cer. 2010 Jul 1;16(4):376-8.

    AbstractIngestion of foreign bodies can be a common problem especially among children, alcoholics, psychiatric patients, and senile patients, but ingestion of a metallic dinner fork is uncommon. Foreign bodies with smooth edges usually do not pose significant problems, but a sharp foreign object that is not retrieved at the earliest may penetrate the wall and cause complications. Ingested foreign bodies usually pass the intestinal tract without problems, and perforation occurs in less than 1%. In this paper, a case of rare gastric outlet obstruction due to a dinner fork, which was ingested 25 days before, is reported.

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