Journal of Gastrointestinal & Digestive System
Open Access

Case Report

An Exceptional Foreign Body in the Stomach

Makhoul E^* and Zaarour A

Department of Gastroenterology University Hospital Notre Dame de Secours, Byblos, Lebanon

*Corresponding Author:

Elias Makhoul
Department of Gastroenterology
Faculty of Medicine and sciences Holy Spirit
University Hospital Notre Dame De Secours Byblos
POB-3 Byblos, Lebanon
Tel: +961 3711787
Fax: +961 9944483
E-mail: eliemakhoul@hotmail.com

Received date: May 26, 2015; Accepted date: June 15, 2015; Published date: June 24, 2015

Citation: Makhoul E, Zaarour A (2015) An Exceptional Foreign Body in the Stomach. J Gastrointest Dig Syst 5:302. doi:10.4172/2161-069X.1000302

Copyright: © 2015 Makhoul E, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License; which permits unrestricted use; distribution; and reproduction in any medium; provided the original author and source are credited.

Foreign body ingestion is a common event that occurs most often in children who account for 75 to 85% of patients; and in psychiatric patients. In adults it is uncommon and usually happens accidentally where these bodies are ingested together with food. The most common foreign bodies accidentally ingested by adults are bones; especially fish bones 9-45% and less commonly dentures 4-18% whereas Children commonly ingest toys and small coins. Most of such foreign bodies pass through gastrointestinal tract uneventfully and rarely cause obstruction or perforation unless a context of pathological change of the digestive tract exists. These changes include strictures; malignancy; esophageal rings and achalasia. We hereby present an unusual and interesting case of a 51-year-old male patient in whom endoscopic removal from the stomach; of an endotracheal tube; was carried out.

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