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Accidental Ingestion of Spoon Presenting as Gastric Outlet Obstruction – An Unusual Case Report

Sumit Pathania, Ashish Vora, Rachan Kathpal, Dipankar Naskar, Nikhil Gupta, C. K. Durga

Asian Journal of Case Reports in Surgery · pp. 13–16 · Published 9 Jan 2019

Abstract

We report a case of a 60 year old male, who presented to our emergency with history of accidental spoon ingestion causing gastric outlet obstruction. Patient had undergone endoscopic extraction which was unsuccessful. He underwent exploratory laparotomy to retrive the spoon and was discharged on 8th postoperative day.

Spoon gastric outlet obstruction exploratory laparotomy.

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