Corpo estranho no ceco retirado por colonoscopia

The foreign body ingestion ocurrs often with children, olds, psychiatrics patients, prisoners or after excessive alcoholic ingestion. Most of foreign bodies (80-90%) passes spontaneously, 10 a 20% have to be removed by endoscopy and only one per cent (1%) needs to be removed by surgery. The authors...

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Main Authors: Jefferson Lessa Soares de Macedo, Estevão Garcia Castro, Sérgio Tamura, Murilo Boavista Pessoa Mendes
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Language:English
Published: Colégio Brasileiro de Cirurgiões
Series:Revista do Colégio Brasileiro de Cirurgiões
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author Jefferson Lessa Soares de Macedo
Estevão Garcia Castro
Sérgio Tamura
Murilo Boavista Pessoa Mendes
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description The foreign body ingestion ocurrs often with children, olds, psychiatrics patients, prisoners or after excessive alcoholic ingestion. Most of foreign bodies (80-90%) passes spontaneously, 10 a 20% have to be removed by endoscopy and only one per cent (1%) needs to be removed by surgery. The authors report a case of a 49-year-old woman who swallowed a needle which impacted in cecum. The patient had psychosis maniac-depressive and swallowed the foreign body aiming self-damage. The presence of foreign body in cecum is rare because of physiologic straitments in the gastrointestinal tract. The ingestion of needle corresponds six percent (6%) of swallowed objects aiming self-damage. Colonoscopy served for localization the foreign body and its withdrawal with success. Colonoscopy for removing foreign bodies is a safe and cheap procedure.
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spelling doaj.art-f4af0437f0e8403286b6341223270fc62022-12-22T01:48:20ZengColégio Brasileiro de CirurgiõesRevista do Colégio Brasileiro de Cirurgiões1809-4546251616310.1590/S0100-69911998000100013S0100-69911998000100013Corpo estranho no ceco retirado por colonoscopiaJefferson Lessa Soares de Macedo0Estevão Garcia Castro1Sérgio Tamura2Murilo Boavista Pessoa Mendes3Hospital das Forças ArmadasHFAHFAHFAThe foreign body ingestion ocurrs often with children, olds, psychiatrics patients, prisoners or after excessive alcoholic ingestion. Most of foreign bodies (80-90%) passes spontaneously, 10 a 20% have to be removed by endoscopy and only one per cent (1%) needs to be removed by surgery. The authors report a case of a 49-year-old woman who swallowed a needle which impacted in cecum. The patient had psychosis maniac-depressive and swallowed the foreign body aiming self-damage. The presence of foreign body in cecum is rare because of physiologic straitments in the gastrointestinal tract. The ingestion of needle corresponds six percent (6%) of swallowed objects aiming self-damage. Colonoscopy served for localization the foreign body and its withdrawal with success. Colonoscopy for removing foreign bodies is a safe and cheap procedure.http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0100-69911998000100013&lng=en&tlng=enForeign bodyColonoscopyCecum
spellingShingle Jefferson Lessa Soares de Macedo
Estevão Garcia Castro
Sérgio Tamura
Murilo Boavista Pessoa Mendes
Corpo estranho no ceco retirado por colonoscopia
Revista do Colégio Brasileiro de Cirurgiões
Foreign body
Colonoscopy
Cecum
title Corpo estranho no ceco retirado por colonoscopia
title_full Corpo estranho no ceco retirado por colonoscopia
title_fullStr Corpo estranho no ceco retirado por colonoscopia
title_full_unstemmed Corpo estranho no ceco retirado por colonoscopia
title_short Corpo estranho no ceco retirado por colonoscopia
title_sort corpo estranho no ceco retirado por colonoscopia
topic Foreign body
Colonoscopy
Cecum
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