Literature DB >> 18854631

Endoscopic removal of an accidentally swallowed toothbrush.

Xin-Liang Lu1, He-Long Cao, Ke-Da Qian.   

Abstract

A rare case is reported with a large foreign body in the upper gastrointestinal tract. A 19-year-old girl accidentally swallowed her toothbrush which was successfully removed via endoscopy using a polypectomy snare under topical pharyngeal anesthesia. The extracted toothbrush was 20 cm long, and it had the characteristic radiographic image.

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Year:  2008        PMID： 18854631     DOI： 10.2169/internalmedicine.47.0910

Source DB:  PubMed          Journal:  Intern Med        ISSN： 0918-2918            Impact factor:   1.271


  3 in total

1.  Embedded toothbrush foreign body in cheek - report of an unusual case.

Authors:  R Sathish; S Suhas; G Gayathri; G Ravikumar; L Chandrashekar; T L Omprakash
Journal:  Eur Arch Paediatr Dent       Date:  2011-10

2.  Successful endoscopic removal of a swallowed toothbrush: case report.

Authors:  Ante Tonkic; Zoran Bogdanovic; Leo Grandić
Journal:  Case Rep Gastroenterol       Date:  2011-04-06

3.  A Foreign Body (Toothbrush) in the Esophagus of a Patient with Hiatal Hernia.

Authors:  Marisa Klancnik; Maja Grgec; Nikola Perković; Petar Ivanišević; Nikola Kolja Poljak
Journal:  Case Rep Gastroenterol       Date:  2017-04-10
  3 in total

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