Successful combination of endoscopic and laparoscopic removal of multiple ingested needles: A case report.

RATIONALE: Foreign body (FB) ingestion is a relatively common clinical situation in the emergency department. However, multiple sharply pointed foreign bodies located in different organs are rare conditions and no definite treatment guidelines has been established. PATIENT CONCERNS: A 31-year-old amateur magician visited the outpatient clinic with a chief complaint of epigastric discomfort. He might have accidentally swallowed some needles while practicing a magic trick 2 days before. DIAGNOSIS: Imaging tests revealed 1 needle was stuck in the left liver lobe through the stomach wall, 1 was in the third portion of the duodenum, 3 were in the ascending colon, and 2 were in the transverse colon. INTERVENTIONS: A needle in the duodenum and 5 in the colon were removed by endoscopy. The needle stuck in the liver from the stomach was not visible inside the stomach and was successfully removed by laparoscopy a few days later. OUTCOMES: The patient was able to tolerate an oral diet and was discharged on postoperative day 4 without any complications. LESSONS: Developing a treatment plan in cases of multiple sharp FB may be difficult. A multidisciplinary team of endoscopists and surgeons is needed to determine the best possible treatment plan. This experience illustrates the importance of the planning of the sequence and method of removal of multiple foreign bodies from the gastrointestinal tract.

Resection of a Submucosal Tumor-Like Superficial Carcinoma in Middle Thoracic Esophagus Concomitant with Mucosal Adenocarcinoma and Submucosal Squamous Cell Carcinoma: A Case Report and Review of Literature.

A 67-year-old man was pointed out mucosal irregularity on health check-up and was referred to our institution. Diagnostic examinations were performed and an aggregated type 0-IIa lesion having 3 small protrusions was recognized in the middle thoracic esophagus. Endoscopic biopsy led to diagnosis of esophageal cancer concomitant with adenocarcinoma and squamous cell carcinoma. Thoracic esophagectomy with 3-fields lymph node dissection was performed via a right thoracoabdominal approach and reconstructed with stomach roll. Three submucosal tumors like small protrusions were recognized in resected specimen. One of them was well differentiated tubular adenocarcinoma which occupied in mucosal layer. The other two were moderately differentiated squamous cell carcinoma. They existed very near but no connection was recognized by serial section. The adenocarcinoma existing in middle esophagus is very rare. Almost all of them were submucosal or advanced cancers. When we searched with the ICHUSHI database (a domestic medical literature database service provided by the NPO Japan Medical Abstracts Society) and the PubMed database, there was no report of mucosal adenocarcinoma occurred in middle thoracic esophagus in the past 10 years. Then this report was thought to be the first report of mucosal adenocarcinoma in middle thoracic esophagus in the world.