title: Foreign body causing chronic subacute small bowel obstruction: an unusual case from Harare Hospital.
abstract: This report describes the clinical presentation, diagnostic work up and surgical management of a rare case of a wedge-shaped organic foreign body found lodged transversely in the wall of the terminal ileum at laparotomy in a 74 year old woman operated on for segmental constrictive intestinal obstruction. The presence of foreign bodies in the gastro-intestinal tract as causative agents of intestinal obstruction is discussed.
authors.affiliation: University of Zimbabwe Medical School, Department of Surgery/Harare Hospital, Zimbabwe.
authors.forename: E J
authors.initials: EJ
authors.lastname: Da Silva
authors.forename: V K
authors.initials: VK
authors.lastname: Golakai
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D001842:Bone and Bones; D002908:Chronic Disease; D005260:Female; D005547:Foreign Bodies / Q000150:complications* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D006801:Humans; D007077:Ileal Diseases / Q000209:etiology* / Q000601:surgery; D007082:Ileum; D007415:Intestinal Obstruction / Q000209:etiology* / Q000601:surgery; D011859:Radiography; D015030:Zimbabwe