Corpo estranho no ceco retirado por colonoscopia / Foreign body of the cecum withdrawn by colonoscopy

ABSTRACT

The foreign body ingestion ocurrs often with children, olds, psychiatrics patients, prisoners of after excessive alcoholic ingestion. Most of foreign bodies (80-90 por cento) passes spontaneously, 10 a 20 por cento have to be removed by endoscopy and only one per cent (1 per cent) 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 has 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 per cent (6 per cent) of swallowed objects aiming self-damage...