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Correo Científico Médico 2020; 24 (1)

Report of a Patient with foreign body in cecal appendix

Cordovés AY

Language: Spanish
References: 10
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ABSTRACT

The foreign bodies lodged in the gastrointestinal tract, constitute a surgical rarity since they are expelled in 95% of the cases. We report the case of an eight-year-old male schoolboy who suffered a closed abdominal trauma due to falling from a height. X-rays of the abdomen are taken and the presence of a foreign body in the cecal appendix is diagnosed incidentally as a finding. The diagnosis is confirmed and we decide surgical extraction, finding a 2 cm foreign body inside the cecal appendix. The curious thing about this case, and at the same time weird, is that foreign bodies that lodge in cecal appendix produce obstruction of the light, and develop a picture of acute appendicitis. In this patient, there was no previous record of abdominal pain, nor did he present acute appendicitis. It is incidentally diagnosed being the patient asymptomatic.


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