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01.04.2007 | Clinical Image
A marble in the small bowel
Erschienen in: Pediatric Radiology | Ausgabe 4/2007
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In December 2004, a 5-year-old girl ingested a steel marble, which the parents did not identify in her stool. A radiograph 1 month later showed the marble to be located in the small bowel and the parents were told that, given time, it would leave their daughter via the natural route. A radiograph made in April 2006 still showed the marble (Fig. 1). As she had no clinical symptoms and a normal defecation pattern the parents were not convinced that treatment was necessary. However, it is rare for a foreign body to remain for a prolonged period within the gastrointestinal tract after passing the pylorus [1]. Therefore, colonoscopy was performed in June 2006 to retrieve the marble. Prior to colonoscopy, bowel lavage was performed in the hope that a side effect would be dislodgement of the marble.
Fig. 1
Abdominal radiograph
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