Doya Leen J, Mohammad Mohammad F, Mohammad Aria, Ibrahim Ali
Department of Pediatrics, Tishreen University Hospital, Latakia, Syria.
Faculty of Medicine, Tishreen University Hospital, Latakia, Syria.
Oxf Med Case Reports. 2023 Aug 20;2023(8):omad088. doi: 10.1093/omcr/omad088. eCollection 2023 Aug.
Foreign body (FB) ingestion is a common emergency among the pediatric population. They usually pass spontaneously through the gastrointestinal (GI) tract. In rare cases, it may cause complications because of the impaction. That depends on the type of an FB, its location, the patient's age and the duration of impaction. Colonoscopy as management of FB ingestion in the ileocecal valve (IC) is rare in the medical literature review. Herein, we reported a case of an FB (thin needle-shaped FB 4 cm long) in the IC that was removed from the IC by colonoscopy. Although colonoscopic retrieval of impacted foreign bodies at the GI tract in children has been rarely reported in the literature review, it may be helpful in young children to avoid invasive surgical treatment.
异物吞食在儿童群体中是一种常见的急症。它们通常会自行通过胃肠道。在极少数情况下，由于异物嵌顿可能会引发并发症。这取决于异物的类型、位置、患者年龄以及嵌顿持续时间。在医学文献综述中，结肠镜检查用于处理回盲瓣处异物吞食的情况较为罕见。在此，我们报告了一例在回盲瓣处发现的异物（一根4厘米长的细针状异物），通过结肠镜检查将其从回盲瓣取出。尽管在文献综述中，儿童胃肠道内嵌顿异物的结肠镜取出术鲜有报道，但这对于幼儿避免侵入性手术治疗可能会有所帮助。
