Denture Misadventure: The Tooth About Your Colon.

colonoscopy endoscopy foreign body

Journal

Cureus
ISSN: 2168-8184
Titre abrégé: Cureus
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 101596737

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
15 Jan 2019
Historique:
entrez: 27 3 2019
pubmed: 27 3 2019
medline: 27 3 2019
Statut: epublish

Résumé

Foreign body ingestion occurs mainly in a mentally impaired person, but rarely in healthy adults. A 48-year-old male was admitted with a recurrence of previously diagnosed right knee septic arthritis and accidentally ingested his dental bridge which was removed from a proximal ascending colon with a colonoscopy.

Identifiants

pubmed: 30911447
doi: 10.7759/cureus.3890
pmc: PMC6424550
doi:

Types de publication

Case Reports

Langues

eng

Pagination

e3890

Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

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Auteurs

Rajesh Essrani (R)

Internal Medicine, Lehigh Valley Health Network, Allentown, USA.

Patrick Hickey (P)

Gastroenterology, Lehigh Valley Health Network, Allentown, USA.

Hiral Shah (H)

Gastroenterology, Lehigh Valley Health Network, Allentown, USA.

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