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Endoscopic management of intentional foreign body ingestion: experience from a UK centre.

Sina YadollahiRyan BuchannanNadeem TehamiBernard StaceyImbadhur RahmanPhilip BogerMark Wright
Published in: Frontline gastroenterology (2021)
In all except those patients with oesophageal impaction of the object on radiograph, there is no need to perform endoscopic extraction out of hours. A subset of cases can avoid endoscopy with an X-ray immediately prior to the procedure as a significant proportion have passed already. We discuss more holistic approaches to deal with recurrent attendances.
Keyphrases
  • ultrasound guided
  • high resolution
  • working memory
  • cross sectional
  • endoscopic submucosal dissection
  • dual energy
  • computed tomography