Foreign bodies in the rectum – an unusual surgical problem

• Authors: Jarosław Buczyński , Ewa Langner , Adam Dziki
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

A foreign body in the rectum is not a very common emergency case in surgical practice, of various etiology. In the years 2003-2011, 8 people were hospitalised in the Clinic of General and Colorectal Surgery due to a foreign body in the rectum. All the patients were male. All of them were qualified for foreign body removal in a surgical suite, under general anaesthesia due to a potential need for expanding the scope of the procedure. In all situations attempts were made at removing the object through the anus, which proved successful in 7 cases, without complications.In one case the scope of the procedure needed to be expanded with laparotomy and sigmoidotomy, through which the foreign body was removed. This procedure was also carried out with no complications.

Keywords

EN

foreign body   rectum  

• Publisher: De Gruyter Open
• Journal: Polish Journal of Surgery
• Year: 2012
• Volume: 84
• Issue: 9
• Pages: 454-456

Dates

published

1 - 10 - 2012

online

23 - 10 - 2012

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/v10035-012-0077-1