title: Delayed complete gastric outlet obstruction due to a dinner fork: report of a case.
abstract: Ingestion of foreign bodies can be a common problem especially among children, alcoholics, psychiatric patients, and senile patients, but ingestion of a metallic dinner fork is uncommon. Foreign bodies with smooth edges usually do not pose significant problems, but a sharp foreign object that is not retrieved at the earliest may penetrate the wall and cause complications. Ingested foreign bodies usually pass the intestinal tract without problems, and perforation occurs in less than 1%. In this paper, a case of rare gastric outlet obstruction due to a dinner fork, which was ingested 25 days before, is reported.
authors.affiliation: Department of General Surgery, Dokuz Eylul University, Faculty of Medicine, Izmir, Turkey. katila@deu.edu.tr
authors.forename: Koray
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Atila
authors.forename: Tarkan
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Unek
authors.forename: Ali Ibrahim
authors.initials: AI
authors.lastname: Sevinç
authors.forename: Baki
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Aydoğan
authors.forename: Ayfer
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Serin
authors.forename: Seymen
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Bora
authors.forename: Hüseyin
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Gülay
mesh_terms: D015746:Abdominal Pain / Q000209:etiology; D016099:Endoscopy, Gastrointestinal; D005547:Foreign Bodies / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*; D017219:Gastric Outlet Obstruction / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011859:Radiography; D013270:Stomach / Q000601:surgery*; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D055815:Young Adult