Accidental Ingestion of a Plastic Water Bottle Cap

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Christos Tsalikidis Christina Nikolaou Panagoula Oikonomou Konstantinos Frigkas Konstantinos Romanidis Christos Kavazis Giasar Chasan Athanasia Mitsala Michalis Pitiakoudis

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Panagoula Oikonomou
2nd Department of Surgery and Laboratory of Experimental Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Democritus University of Thrace, Alexandroupolis, Greece

A B S T R A C T

A 78-year-old male was turned up to the emergency room with a 5-day history of vomiting, diffuse abdominal pain, and altered bowel habits. After physical examination, routine blood tests, chest, and abdominal radiographs, as well as an abdominal ultrasound had been contacted to examine his ongoing symptoms, a serious intestinal obstruction was revealed. Bowel obstruction is interrelated with his medical history, as he suffered from inoperable prostate cancer. A CT scan was performed to exclude an associated complication. A plastic, 3cm diameter, water bottle cap was in the ileum revealed with no evidence of perforation or collection. A colonoscopy by an experienced endoscopist failed to reach and retrieve the plastic water bottle cap. Finally, the plastic water bottle cap was removed through an enterotomy. Even if a careful history taking can give a clue for diagnosis, the cause of bowel obstruction could be a surprise.

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Case Report

Publication history

Received: Thu 24, Dec 2020
Accepted: Mon 11, Jan 2021
Published: Sat 30, Jan 2021

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© 2023 Panagoula Oikonomou. 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. Hosting by Science Repository.
DOI: 10.31487/j.SCR.2021.01.12