Complications of ornamental Christmas bulb ingestion. Case report and review of the literature.
Arch Surg
; 110(12): 1494-7, 1975 Dec.
Article
in En
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-1081870
ABSTRACT
Unusual complications ensued when a 14-month-old boy ingested an ornamental Christmas bulb. Profuse rectal bleeding, a large ischiorectal abscess, and an acute condition of the abdomen necessiated a sigmoid colostomy with drainage of the ischiorectal abscess. Following this, repeated episodes of hemorrhage via the colostomy and rectum required multiple operative procedures. The last of these was a total colectomy with an ileostomy and rectal mucous fistula. The patient subsequently developed intestinal obstruction that required lysis of adhesions and drainage of a chronic subhepatic abscess, due to perforation of the terminal part of the ileum. The patient required five months of hospitalization and further surgery to reconstruct gastrointestinal continuity. Hemorrhage is an infrequent complication of foreign body ingestion, as reported in the literature. We theorize that the problems in this case were the result of the extreme thinness (0.033 cm) and the brittleness of the glass fragments.
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Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Foreign Bodies
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Glass
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Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage
Type of study:
Etiology_studies
Limits:
Humans
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Infant
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Male
Language:
En
Year:
1975
Type:
Article