TY - JOUR AU - Mukherjee, Pratik; Peng, Daniel Wu; Chawla, Ashish TI - Watch What You Swallow!—A Rare Cause of Not So Rare Entity Presenting to the Emergency Room SN - 2581-9178 PY - 2019 JF - Journal of Gastrointestinal and Abdominal Radiology LA - EN VL - 02 IS - 01 SP - 049 EP - 052 DA - 2019/06/24 KW - computed tomography KW - appendicitis KW - fishbone KW - foreign body AB - Foreign-body ingestion is a rare cause for acute appendicitis. The authors report a case of a 48-year-old man who presented with abdominal pain for 3 days. Computed tomography (CT) revealed a foreign body in the appendix with peri-appendicular inflammatory changes. The patient underwent a successful appendectomy with complete recovery. PB - Thieme Medical and Scientific Publishers Private Ltd. DO - 10.1055/s-0038-1676408 UR - http://www.thieme-connect.com/products/ejournals/abstract/10.1055/s-0038-1676408 ER -