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Case Reports
. 2002 Jul-Aug;26(4):529-31.
doi: 10.1097/00004728-200207000-00010.

Small bowel obstruction caused by snail's shell: radiographic and CT findings

Marcos Agramunt Lerma  1 , José María Errando Mariscal, Fructuoso Delgado Cordón, Segundo Gómez Abril, Eva Montalvá Orón, María Jesús Martínez Pérez
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Case Reports

Small bowel obstruction caused by snail's shell: radiographic and CT findings

Marcos Agramunt Lerma et al. J Comput Assist Tomogr. 2002 Jul-Aug.

Abstract

We report a case of small bowel obstruction in a 74-year-old woman presenting with abdominal pain due to the accidental swallowing of a snail shell. A diagnosis of obstruction was made by abdominal radiograph, and its etiology was found after abdominal CT was performed. This is an unusual case of small bowel obstruction due to a foreign body that was preoperatively diagnosed with imaging.

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