Corpo estranho no ceco retirado por colonoscopia

Foreign body of the cecum withdrawn by colonoscopy

Foreign body; Colonoscopy; Cecum

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Corpo estranho no ceco retirado por colonoscopia

Foreign body of the cecum withdrawn by colonoscopy

Jefferson Lessa Soares de Macedo, RCBC-DF^I; Estevão Garcia Castro^II; Sérgio Tamura, ACBC-DF^II; Murilo Boavista Pessoa Mendes^III

^IResidente da Clínica Cirúrgica do Hospital das Forças Armadas (HFA), Brasília-DF

^IIMédicos do Serviço de Coloproctologia do HFA

^IIIChefe do Serviço de Coloproctologia do HFA

^{Endereço para correspondência}

SUMMARY

The foreign body ingestion ocurrs often with children, olds, psychiatrics patients, prisoners or after excessive alcoholic ingestion. Most of foreign bodies (80-90%) passes spontaneously, 10 a 20% have to be removed by endoscopy and only one per cent (1%) needs to be removed by surgery. The authors report a case of a 49-year-old woman who swallowed a needle which impacted in cecum. The patient had psychosis maniac-depressive and swallowed the foreign body aiming self-damage. The presence of foreign body in cecum is rare because of physiologic straitments in the gastrointestinal tract. The ingestion of needle corresponds six percent (6%) of swallowed objects aiming self-damage. Colonoscopy served for localization the foreign body and its withdrawal with success. Colonoscopy for removing foreign bodies is a safe and cheap procedure.

Key words: Foreign body; Colonoscopy; Cecum.

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Recebido em 17/1/97

Aceito para publicação em 15/9/97

Trabalho realizado no Serviço de Coloprocto1ogia do Hospital das Forças Armadas - HFA- Brasília-DF.

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Endereço para correspondência:

Dr. Jefferson Lessa Soares de Macedo

SQS 102 Bloco "H" Apt

^o 106

70330-080 - Brasília - DF

Datas de Publicação

• Publicação nesta coleção
  26 Jul 2010
• Data do Fascículo
  Fev 1998

Histórico

• Aceito
  15 Set 1997
• Recebido
  17 Jan 1997