Ingestão de corpo estranho / Ingestion of foreign body
Rev. Col. Bras. Cir
;
26(4): 246-8, jul.-ago. 1999. ilus
Article
in Portuguese
| LILACS
| ID: lil-275076
ABSTRACT
The great majority of the ingested foreign bodies (92,5 por cento) enters into the gastrointestinal tract, and only a few of cases go to the respiratory tract. Eighty to 90 por cento of those that go into the gastrointestinal tract are spontaneously eliminated but 10-20 por cento must be removed by endoscopy and 1 por cento needs to be surgically removed. The authors report a case of accidental ingestion of a foreign body (toothbrush) by a 20-year-old patient
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Main subject:
Abdomen
/
Foreign Bodies
Limits:
Adult
/
Female
/
Humans
Language:
Portuguese
Journal:
Rev. Col. Bras. Cir
Journal subject:
General Surgery
Year:
1999
Type:
Article
Affiliation country:
Brazil
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