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Bamboo skewer perforation of the bowel: computed tomography appearances
1Department of Diagnostic Radiology, University of Hong Kong, Queen Mary Hospital, Hong Kong. wcgpeh@hkucc.hku.hk
Australasian Radiology
|August 1, 1997
Abstract:
A 25-year-old Chinese woman presented with a painful left-lower-quadrant abdominal mass. Computed tomography (CT) demonstrated a dense forked foreign body within an extraluminal mass. A 2.5 cm bamboo skewer surrounded by inflamed omentum was found at laparotomy. Different CT densities of bamboo skewers were obtained when exposed to air, water and 2% Gastrografin in an in vitro experiment. Awareness of the possible variations in appearances of wooden foreign bodies in and around the bowel may aid their CT diagnoses.