Incarcerated sigmoid bottle.
A 67-year-old man presented to Casualty approximately 12 hours after the insertion of a bottle into his rectum. An attempt was made to deliver the bottle through the rectum but because of perirectal oedema and a coat-hanger wire around the internal end of the bottle, this proved impossible. Laparotomy was performed and the bottle was removed through a longitudinal colotomy.
University Department of Surgery, Princess Alexandra Hospital, Woolloongabba, Queensland.
B J
BJ
Miller
N R
NR
Wetzig
D000368:Aged; D004487:Edema / Q000209:etiology*; D005547:Foreign Bodies / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D007813:Laparotomy; D008297:Male; D011859:Radiography; D012007:Rectum