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DOI: 10.1055/s-2001-13688
© Georg Thieme Verlag Stuttgart · New York
Uneventful Endoscopic Retrieval of a Cannibalized Aortic Trouser Graft
B. J. M. Jones
Dept. of Gastroenterology
Dudley Hospitals NHS Trust
West Midlands
DY1 2HQ
United Kingdom
Fax: Fax:+44-7092-104679
Email: E-mail:manarain@doctors.net.uk
Publication History
Publication Date:
31 December 2001 (online)
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Figure 1A 60-year-old man with bilateral amputations presented in November 1999 with mild hemiparesis and microcytic anaemia. At routine gastroscopy, a gallstone-like object was seen to fill the distal duodenal bulb. This was snared and, upon retrieval, the abdominal portion of a Dacron aortic trouser graft followed. The patient made an uneventful recovery and returned to a normal diet. The figure shows that the distal portion of the graft, previously inserted with recovery of pedal pulses in 1988, had migrated into the duodenum and had become bile-encrusted.
B. J. M. Jones
Dept. of Gastroenterology
Dudley Hospitals NHS Trust
West Midlands
DY1 2HQ
United Kingdom
Fax: Fax:+44-7092-104679
Email: E-mail:manarain@doctors.net.uk
B. J. M. Jones
Dept. of Gastroenterology
Dudley Hospitals NHS Trust
West Midlands
DY1 2HQ
United Kingdom
Fax: Fax:+44-7092-104679
Email: E-mail:manarain@doctors.net.uk
![](https://www.thieme-connect.de/media/endoscopy/200104/thumbnails/f390-1.gif)
![Zoom Image](/products/assets/desktop/css/img/icon-figure-zoom.png)
Figure 1A 60-year-old man with bilateral amputations presented in November 1999 with mild hemiparesis and microcytic anaemia. At routine gastroscopy, a gallstone-like object was seen to fill the distal duodenal bulb. This was snared and, upon retrieval, the abdominal portion of a Dacron aortic trouser graft followed. The patient made an uneventful recovery and returned to a normal diet. The figure shows that the distal portion of the graft, previously inserted with recovery of pedal pulses in 1988, had migrated into the duodenum and had become bile-encrusted.