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Case Reports
. 2023 Feb;112(2):117-119.
doi: 10.1024/1661-8157/a003968.

Intra-Abdominal Abscess of Unusual Origin

Christoph Eckharter  1 , Jörn-Markus Gass  1 , Valerie Kremo  1
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Case Reports

Intra-Abdominal Abscess of Unusual Origin

Christoph Eckharter et al. Praxis (Bern 1994). 2023 Feb.

Abstract

This article describes the case of a woman who unknowingly swallowed several fishbones, one of which perforated the intestinal wall and subsequently formed an intra-abdominal abscess due to the foreign body reaction.

Keywords: Allgemeinchirurgie; Fischgräte; General surgery; fishbone; intra-abdominal abscess; intraabdominaler Abszess.

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