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- Title
Rare pediatric case of Meckel diverticulum penetration caused by a fish bone.
- Authors
Masuya, Ryuta; Okamoto, Kohji; Kidogawa, Hideo; Kamizono, Junji; Ieiri, Satoshi
- Abstract
The article presents a case study of a 13-year-old boy, admitted due to abdominal pain. It mentions he result of his computed tomography (CT) as thickening of the wall of the terminal ileum accompanied by a fish bone-like linear high-density foreign body in the lumen of the terminal ileum and also focuses on the mechanism of penetration due to the fish bone.
- Subjects
ULTRASONIC imaging of the abdomen; ABDOMINAL pain; BLOOD testing; COMPUTED tomography; CLINICAL pathology; FISHES; FOREIGN bodies; ILEUM; LAPAROSCOPY; MYALGIA; PEDIATRICS; SEAFOOD; INTESTINAL perforation; MECKEL diverticulum
- Publication
Pediatrics International, 2019, Vol 61, Issue 7, p731
- ISSN
1328-8067
- Publication type
Case Study
- DOI
10.1111/ped.13902