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.
Song
Yan
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Kidney Disease Center, The First Affiliated Hospital, College of Medicine, Zhejiang University, No. 79 Qingchun Road, Hangzhou 310003, Zhejiang Province, China.
Guo
Hua
H
Wu
Jian-Yong
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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