3D-CT diagnosis for ingested foreign bodies

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 b...

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Published in:The American journal of emergency medicine 2000-03, Vol.18 (2), p.192-193
Main Authors: Takada, Moriatsu, Kashiwagi, Ryoichi, Sakane, Masayoshi, Tabata, Fumihira, Kuroda, Yoshikazu
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Abdominal Pain - etiology
Aged
Animals
Biological and medical sciences
Bone and Bones
Colectomy
Colon, Sigmoid
Diagnosis, Differential
Drug Packaging
Female
Fever - etiology
fish bone
Fishes
Foreign Bodies - complications
Foreign Bodies - diagnostic imaging
Foreign Bodies - surgery
foreign body
Gastroenterology. Liver. Pancreas. Abdomen
Helical computed tomography
Humans
Ileum
Inflammation
Medical sciences
Middle Aged
Other diseases. Semiology
press-through package (PTP)
Stomach. Duodenum. Small intestine. Colon. Rectum. Anus
three dimensional
Tomography, X-Ray Computed - methods
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Summary: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.
ISSN:0735-6757
1532-8171
DOI:10.1016/S0735-6757(00)90018-4