Ingestion of unusual foreign bodies and malrotation: a "perfect storm".
Management of foreign body ingestion is usually nonsurgical unless atypical foreign bodies or anatomical variants are suspected. The present article illustrates a case of atypical foreign bodies ingestion in the presence of intestinal malrotation. The patient required surgical treatment and had an uneventful postoperative recovery. The article also reviews the cases reported in the literature of magnetic ingestion and the possible complications associated with it.
de la Fuente
Sebastian G
SG
Department of Surgery, Duke University Medical Center, P.O. Box 3443, Durham, NC 27710, USA. delaf002@mc.duke.edu
Rice
Henry E
HE
D002675:Child, Preschool; D003106:Colon; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005547:Foreign Bodies / Q000150:complications* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D007415:Intestinal Obstruction / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology* / Q000601:surgery; D007813:Laparotomy; D008280:Magnetics; D008297:Male; D008670:Metals; D011860:Radiography, Abdominal; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed
D008670:Metals