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Endoscopy 1970; 02(3): 193-194
DOI: 10.1055/s-0028-1098464
Through the Scope

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Gastroscopic Extraction of a Foreign Body

R. Ottenjann
  • Department of Medicine, University Erlangen-Nuremberg
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08 December 2008 (online)

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Summary

The successful extraction of a foreign body which got stuck in the pyloric canal in a 6-year-old girl via gastroscope is reported. Therapeutic gastroscopy was performed in general anesthesia. Surgery seems to be avoidable in most cases of foreign bodies which do not pass the pylorus.

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Gastric foreign body - gastroscopic extraction - hairclamp in the stomach