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- Title
Small Bowel Obstruction with a Mass Due to an Impacted Shiitake Mushroom: Specific CT Images.
- Authors
Moriwaki, Yoshihiro; Otani, Jun; Okuda, Junzo
- Abstract
The article describes the case of an 81-year-old woman who suffered from a small bowel obstruction due to impacted shiitake mushroom. Topics covered include symptoms of the patient, role of the habit of the patient of eating quickly and swallowing foods whole in the impacted mushroom, and the possibility of misdiagnosing impacted foods as tumorous lesions during surgery.
- Subjects
ABDOMINAL surgery; COMPUTED tomography; FOREIGN bodies; SMALL intestine; BOWEL obstructions; MUSHROOMS; DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY
- Publication
American Surgeon, 2019, Vol 85, Issue 6, pe290
- ISSN
0003-1348
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.1177/000313481908500607