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Vishwanath N Shenoy1, Kiran Bettaiah Chandrashekar, Eugene Ferris
1River Region Health System, Vicksburg, MS 39183, USA.
Abstract:
We report a case of a 59-year-old white male who presented with right-sided abdominal pain of 6 months duration. The patient had a total colectomy and Brooks continent ileostomy 20 years ago for severe ulcerative colitis. A CT scan of the abdomen and pelvis revealed large number of pills (pharmacobezoar) in the small bowel, just proximal to the ileostomy pouch. The patient underwent a laparotomy and enterotomy, which resulted in extraction of more than 50 pills from the small bowel. He had no symptoms during the subsequent follow up visits.
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