Operative Removal of 154 Objects in Chronic Compulsive Foreign Body Ingestion

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Zahra Haider Amanda Chelednik Jacob Quick

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Amanda Chelednik
Department of Acute Care Surgery, University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, Missouri, USA

A B S T R A C T

Intentional foreign body ingestion presents as a chronic surgical challenge. We encountered a severe case of ingestion that had failed endoscopic retrieval secondary to the size, shape, and quantity of structures encountered. Open gastrostomy with removal of objects with care to prevent future hostile abdomen was performed with 154 total objects removed at completion. We report a lesson in approaching a clinical problem with thought to approach for the preservation of anatomical structures in potential future interventions.

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Case Report

Publication history

Received: Mon 10, Aug 2020
Accepted: Mon 21, Sep 2020
Published: Fri 02, Oct 2020

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© 2023 Amanda Chelednik. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Hosting by Science Repository.
DOI: 10.31487/j.AJSCR.2020.04.01