15 cm long impacted chewing wood stick in stomach: Endoscopic removal
We report a case of long rigid radiolucent foreign body “chewing wood stick (datun)” impacted in the stomach of a 50-year-old man. He was literate, without any history of psychiatric illness and had been using “datun” to clean his teeth for last 15 years. He presented with a history of accidental in...
Main Authors: | Surender Sultania, Vidhyadhar Singh Nitar, Sandeep Nijhawan, Gaurav Gupta |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Thieme Medical and Scientific Publishers Pvt. Ltd.
2016-10-01
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Series: | Journal of Digestive Endoscopy |
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Online Access: | http://www.thieme-connect.de/DOI/DOI?10.4103/0976-5042.195765 |
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