Travel of a mis-swallowed long spoon to the jejunum.
Foreign-body ingestion is a relatively common presentation at emergency departments, but long metallic spoon swallowing is an infrequent occurrence. Unlike most cases of foreign-body ingestion, there have been no reported cases of long foreign bodies reaching the jejunum. We report a rare case of a coffee spoon that was swallowed accidentally and passed through the pylorus and duodenal loop and reached the jejunum, with no complications.
Kidney Disease Center, The First Affiliated Hospital, College of Medicine, Zhejiang University, No. 79 Qingchun Road, Hangzhou 310003, Zhejiang Province, China.
Yan
Y
Song
Hua
H
Guo
Jian-Yong
JY
Wu
D000328:Adult; D003297:Cooking and Eating Utensils; D003679:Deglutition; D004386:Duodenum / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D016099:Endoscopy, Gastrointestinal; D005260:Female; D005548:Foreign-Body Migration / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology* / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D007583:Jejunum / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery; D011708:Pylorus / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D011859:Radiography; D016896:Treatment Outcome