Metallic bezoar in the gastrointestinal tract - case report
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https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2176-7262.v50i2p114-118Keywords:
Foreign-Body Reaction. Laparotomy. Gastrointestinal Tract. BezoarAbstract
The purpose of this article is to describe a clinical case of relapsing metallic bezoar in the gastroinstestinal tract, observed in a psychiatric patient treated at the Hospital Universitario Sul Fluminense, located at city of Vassouras/ RJ. Bezoars are foreign bodies that impact the lumen of the digestive tract and are formed by the continued, prolonged and intentional ingestion of exotic materials or continuous use of medications. The bezoars may extend in continuity to the small intestine or could be presented as multiple masses detectable in any gut segment. By exploratory laparotomies, the metallic bodies in the gastric and intestinal region were removed. The patient evaded the Hospital and monitoring of the case by a multidisciplinary team was not possibleDownloads
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2017-04-04
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Oliveira PSC de, Franco ROM, Souza MCA de, Garcia HJP. Metallic bezoar in the gastrointestinal tract - case report. Medicina (Ribeirão Preto) [Internet]. 2017 Apr. 4 [cited 2024 May 13];50(2):114-8. Available from: https://www.periodicos.usp.br/rmrp/article/view/135091