title: 3D-CT diagnosis for ingested foreign bodies.
abstract: Ingested foreign bodies can be hard to diagnose but cannot be missed. We report two cases where helical computed tomography (three-dimensional computed tomography) was used for the effective preoperative diagnosis (swallowed fish bone-induced perforation of sigmoid colon and a case of ileus caused by ingested PTP [press-through package]). Other traditional diagnostic methods could not identify the foreign bodies. Three-dimensional computed tomography is useful for the diagnosis of foreign body ingestion and should be used for the difficult cases.
authors.affiliation: Tabata Gastrointestinal Hospital, Kobe, Japan.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Takada
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Kashiwagi
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Sakane
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Tabata
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Kuroda
mesh_terms: D015746:Abdominal Pain / Q000209:etiology; D000368:Aged; D000818:Animals; D001842:Bone and Bones; D003082:Colectomy; D012809:Colon, Sigmoid; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004349:Drug Packaging; D005260:Female; D005334:Fever / Q000209:etiology; D005399:Fishes; D005547:Foreign Bodies / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D007082:Ileum; D007249:Inflammation; D008875:Middle Aged; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed / Q000379:methods*