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Subudhi, P. C., Singh, S. P., Meher, C., & Agrawal, O. (2008). Retention of foreign body in the gut can be a sign of congenital obstructive anomaly: a case report. Journal of medical case reports, 2293. https://doi.org/10.1186/1752-1947-2-293
Subudhi, Pravas Chandra, et al. "Retention of foreign body in the gut can be a sign of congenital obstructive anomaly: a case report." Journal of medical case reports vol. 2 (2008): 293. doi: https://doi.org/10.1186/1752-1947-2-293
Subudhi PC, Singh SP, Meher C, Agrawal O. Retention of foreign body in the gut can be a sign of congenital obstructive anomaly: a case report. J Med Case Rep. 2008 Sep 09;2:293. doi: 10.1186/1752-1947-2-293. PMID: 18782435; PMCID: PMC2546415.
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J Med Case Rep. 2008 Sep 09;2:293. doi: 10.1186/1752-1947-2-293.

Retention of foreign body in the gut can be a sign of congenital obstructive anomaly: a case report.

Journal of medical case reports

Pravas Chandra Subudhi, Shivaram Prasad Singh, Chudamani Meher, Omprakash Agrawal

Affiliations

  1. Department of Gastroenterology, SCB Medical College, Cuttack, Orissa, India. [email protected]

PMID: 18782435 PMCID: PMC2546415 DOI: 10.1186/1752-1947-2-293

Abstract

INTRODUCTION: Small smooth objects that enter the gut nearly always pass uneventfully through the gastrointestinal tract. Retention of foreign objects may occur due to congenital obstructive anomaly of the gut.

CASE PRESENTATION: We report here a child who presented with features of small gut obstruction which were attributed to a foreign body impacted in the intestine. At surgery, an annular pancreas was detected and the foreign body was found to be lodged in the distended proximal duodenum.

CONCLUSION: The reported case highlights the fact that an impacted radio-opaque foreign body in a child should warn the pediatrician to the possibility of an obstructive congenital anomaly.

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