Abdominal pain from ingested bone misdiagnosed as appendicitis: Report of a rare case and literature review.

Autor: Asaad HR; Baxshin Research Center, Baxshin Hospital, Sulaimani, Kurdistan Region, Iraq.; Kurdistan Center for Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Sulaimani, Kurdistan, Iraq., Faraj HI; Kurdistan Center for Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Sulaimani, Kurdistan, Iraq., Altom A; Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Damascus University, Damascus, Syrian Arab Republic., Ahmed SA; Baxshin Research Center, Baxshin Hospital, Sulaimani, Kurdistan Region, Iraq., Muhammad BK; Baxshin Research Center, Baxshin Hospital, Sulaimani, Kurdistan Region, Iraq.; Anesthesia Department Technical, College of Health, Sulaimani, Polytechnic University, Kurdistan Region, Iraq., Rashid MJ; Baxshin Research Center, Baxshin Hospital, Sulaimani, Kurdistan Region, Iraq., Aziz JMA; Baxshin Research Center, Baxshin Hospital, Sulaimani, Kurdistan Region, Iraq.; Medical laboratory science, College of health sciences, University of Human Development, Sulaimani, Kurdistan Region, Iraq., Khdhir RH; Baxshin Research Center, Baxshin Hospital, Sulaimani, Kurdistan Region, Iraq., Huy NT; School of Tropical Medicine and Global Health, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, 852-8523, Japan.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Radiology case reports [Radiol Case Rep] 2022 Aug 28; Vol. 17 (11), pp. 4111-4114. Date of Electronic Publication: 2022 Aug 28 (Print Publication: 2022).
DOI: 10.1016/j.radcr.2022.07.108
Abstrakt: Bones are potential foreign bodies that could be accidentally ingested, leading to several symptoms varying from asymptomatic to perforation of the gastrointestinal tract. However, these cases are rare but may be misdiagnosed with other common diseases such as appendicitis. We present in this case a 25-year-old male who presented with appendicitis symptoms, after appendectomy the patient had the same complaint, But the colonoscopy demonstrated a meat bone in the terminal ileum and was removed with the same device. Finally, he was discharged from the hospital without complications and after decreasing abdominal pain. According to the literature review, this is one of the rare cases of using colonoscopy to treat bone impaction non-operatively.
(© 2022 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Inc. on behalf of University of Washington.)
Databáze: MEDLINE