Here we report the case of a 34-year-old man who underwent endoscopic removal of a tablespoon from the stomach that was lodged within the duodenum.Removal required the use of a two-channel upper endoscope and polypect...Here we report the case of a 34-year-old man who underwent endoscopic removal of a tablespoon from the stomach that was lodged within the duodenum.Removal required the use of a two-channel upper endoscope and polypectomy snares.Using the doublesnare technique, the spoon was grasped at the proximal and distal parts of the handle.The doublesnare was first pulled unsuccessfully and then pulled with simultaneous manual abdominal compression of the bulbus from the body surface.Compression was gently applied towards the stomach.As a result, the head of the spoon prolapsed from the bulbus, and was easily retracted from the stomach without any complications.In cases of foreign body lodging within the duodenum, the manual abdominal compression technique may help clinicians pull out the object and avoid surgery.The usefulness of manual compression is dependent on the foreign body's sharpness and the location.展开更多
基金Supported by Department of Gastroenterology and Medicine,Fukuoka University School of Medicine,Fukuoka,Japan
文摘Here we report the case of a 34-year-old man who underwent endoscopic removal of a tablespoon from the stomach that was lodged within the duodenum.Removal required the use of a two-channel upper endoscope and polypectomy snares.Using the doublesnare technique, the spoon was grasped at the proximal and distal parts of the handle.The doublesnare was first pulled unsuccessfully and then pulled with simultaneous manual abdominal compression of the bulbus from the body surface.Compression was gently applied towards the stomach.As a result, the head of the spoon prolapsed from the bulbus, and was easily retracted from the stomach without any complications.In cases of foreign body lodging within the duodenum, the manual abdominal compression technique may help clinicians pull out the object and avoid surgery.The usefulness of manual compression is dependent on the foreign body's sharpness and the location.
