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CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 · Journal of Digestive Endoscopy 2016; 07(04): 148-149
DOI: 10.4103/0976-5042.195765
Case Report
Journal of Digestive Endoscopy

15 cm long impacted chewing wood stick in stomach: Endoscopic removal

Surender Sultania
Department of Gastroenterology, SMS Medical College, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India
,
Vidhyadhar Singh Nitar
Department of Gastroenterology, SMS Medical College, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India
,
Sandeep Nijhawan
Department of Gastroenterology, SMS Medical College, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India
,
Gaurav Gupta
Department of Gastroenterology, SMS Medical College, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India
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26 September 2019 (online)

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Abstract

We report a case of long rigid radiolucent foreign body “chewing wood stick (datun)” impacted in the stomach of a 50-year-old man. He was literate, without any history of psychiatric illness and had been using “datun” to clean his teeth for last 15 years. He presented with a history of accidental ingestion of “datun” 3 months back, it was found impacted in the stomach on percutaneous ultrasonography and was removed with endoscopy using rat tooth forceps and snare.

Key words

Chewing wood stick - endoscopy - foreign body
 

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