<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> Background: Usually children mistakenly swallow foreign bodies, and most objects are spontaneously discharged through the digestive tract without consequence. However, sometimes the objects can cause gastrointestinal perforation, with serious complications.Objective: To report the case of a 26-year-old male patient, who mistakenly swallowed a bamboo chopstick 14 years ago. The chopstick eventually perforated the gastric fundus and left diaphragm, pierced the lower left lobe of the lung, and caused a lower left lung abscess.Method: A thoracotomy was conducted to remove the foreign body and the lower left lobe of the lung, followed by a patch fundoplication.Result: The object was removed and the patient’s lesions healed after surgery.Conclusion: The ingestion of foreign bodies rarely causes serious problems, but we should be vigilant to the occurrence of complications, and close follow-up should be conducted. This follow-up should include confirmation that the foreign body has passed through the alimentary tract.</abstract>

Background: Usually children mistakenly swallow foreign bodies, and most objects are spontaneously discharged through the digestive tract without consequence. However, sometimes the objects can cause gastrointestinal perforation, with serious complications.Objective: To report the case of a 26-year-old male patient, who mistakenly swallowed a bamboo chopstick 14 years ago. The chopstick eventually perforated the gastric fundus and left diaphragm, pierced the lower left lobe of the lung, and caused a lower left lung abscess.Method: A thoracotomy was conducted to remove the foreign body and the lower left lobe of the lung, followed by a patch fundoplication.Result: The object was removed and the patient’s lesions healed after surgery.Conclusion: The ingestion of foreign bodies rarely causes serious problems, but we should be vigilant to the occurrence of complications, and close follow-up should be conducted. This follow-up should include confirmation that the foreign body has passed through the alimentary tract.

Lower left lung abscess from combined stomach and left diaphragm perforation by an intragastric foreign body

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Jilin University China–Japan Union Hospital, Changchun, Jilin 130033,

Asian Biomedicine

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Background: Usually children mistakenly swallow foreign bodies, and most objects are spontaneously discharged through the digestive tract without consequence....

Lower left lung abscess from combined stomach and left diaphragm perforation by an intragastric foreign body

Article Category: Clinical report

Published Online: Feb 04, 2017

Page range: 673 - 676

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5372/1905-7415.0805.343

Keywords
Foreign body, gastric perforation, lung abscess, mistakenly swallow

© 2017

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Lower left lung abscess from combined stomach and left diaphragm perforation by an intragastric foreign body

Article Category: Clinical report

Published Online: Feb 04, 2017

Page range: 673 - 676

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5372/1905-7415.0805.343

KeywordsForeign body, gastric perforation, lung abscess, mistakenly swallow

© 2017

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Keywords
Foreign body, gastric perforation, lung abscess, mistakenly swallow