Endoscopic removal of an impacted wooden toothpick in the wall of the sigmoid colon
- Resource Type
- Authors
- Grzegorz Wallner; Artur Zakościelny; Witold Zgodziński; Krzysztof Zinkiewicz
- Source
- Videosurgery and other Miniinvasive Techniques
Videosurgery and Other Miniinvasive Techniques, Vol 13, Iss 3, Pp 417-419 (2018)
- Subject
- medicine.medical_specialty
Urology
lcsh:Medicine
Case Report
Screening colonoscopy
screening colonoscopy
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Medicine
Ingestion
sigmoid colon
Toothpick
Gastrointestinal tract
business.industry
lcsh:R
Gastroenterology
Obstetrics and Gynecology
Sigmoid colon
wooden toothpick
medicine.disease
foreign body
Surgery
medicine.anatomical_structure
Recurrent fever
Acute abdomen
030220 oncology & carcinogenesis
030211 gastroenterology & hepatology
Foreign body
medicine.symptom
business
- Language
- English
- ISSN
- 2299-0054
1895-4588
Most ingested foreign bodies usually pass through the gastrointestinal tract without any complications. Sharp foreign bodies such as a wooden toothpick may cause severe complications, leading to an acute abdomen. They may also cause mild, non-specific gastrointestinal symptoms without significant findings. We describe a case of a 60-year-old man initially diagnosed with a foreign body impacted into the wall of the rectosigmoid junction upon screening colonoscopy. Incidentally, ingestion of the wooden toothpick 6 months before admission and the presence of recurrent fever and lower abdominal pain were confirmed in the patient's history. Our video case study demonstrates the successful endoscopic removal of the wooden toothpick impacted into the colon wall.