Tashiro Yoshihiko, Kawai Masaya, Takehara Kazuhiro, Munakata Shinya, Ishiyama Shun, Sugimoto Kiichi, Takahashi Makoto, Kojima Yutaka, Goto Michitoshi, Tomiki Yuichi, Shibuya Tomoyoshi, Osada Taro, Watanabe Sumio, Sakamoto Kazuhiro
Department of Coloproctological Surgery, Juntendo University Faculty of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan.
Department of Gastroenterology, Juntendo University Faculty of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan.
Case Rep Gastroenterol. 2014 Jun 7;8(2):206-10. doi: 10.1159/000364821. eCollection 2014 May.
Capsule endoscopy (CE) is commonly used for examining and diagnosing gastrointestinal disease, especially small bowel disease. Capsule retention is a well-known and significant complication of CE and requires surgical or endoscopic removal. Most reports described the retrieval of retained CE via laparotomy. We report a case of successful retrieval of the capsule using single incision laparoscopic surgery.