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Revista colombiana de Gastroenterología
versión impresa ISSN 0120-9957versión On-line ISSN 2500-7440
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ARANGO, Luis Alberto Ángel; LEON SIERRA, Lina Paola; MARTINEZ GUTIERREZ, Diana Carolina y JURADO GRISALES, Marcela. Incidental foreign body in the gastrointestinal tract: Report of three cases and literature review. Rev Col Gastroenterol [online]. 2011, vol.26, n.4, pp.316-327. ISSN 0120-9957.
Foreign body ingestion is a common condition in the emergency department. Although most objects get away without symptoms, events occur depending of their location and characteristics or may go unnoticed and later cause severe complications that threaten the patients life. We report three cases of foreign bodies identified during upper gastrointestinal endoscopy as an incidental finding and a review of the epidemiology of this condition, and the variety of clinical presentations depending on the organ involved, secondary complications and diagnostic approaches. Finally, we propose a flow chart diagnosis and treatment that unifies those proposed in the literature
Palabras clave : Foreign body; incidental; digestive tract; complications; flow chart.