Sistema gastrointestinal y digestivo

Abstracto

An Exceptional Foreign Body in the Stomach

Makhoul E, Zaarour A

Foreign body ingestion is a common event that occurs most often in children who account for 75 to 85% of patients; and in psychiatric patients. In adults it is uncommon and usually happens accidentally where these bodies are ingested together with food. The most common foreign bodies accidentally ingested by adults are bones; especially fish bones 9-45% and less commonly dentures 4-18% whereas Children commonly ingest toys and small coins. Most of such foreign bodies pass through gastrointestinal tract uneventfully and rarely cause obstruction or perforation unless a context of pathological change of the digestive tract exists. These changes include strictures; malignancy; esophageal rings and achalasia. We hereby present an unusual and interesting case of a 51-year-old male patient in whom endoscopic removal from the stomach; of an endotracheal tube; was carried out.