Watch What You Swallow!—A Rare Cause of Not So Rare Entity Presenting to the Emergency Room

Abstract

Foreign-body ingestion is a rare cause for acute appendicitis. The authors report a case of a 48-year-old man who presented with abdominal pain for 3 days. Computed tomography (CT) revealed a foreign body in the appendix with peri-appendicular inflammatory changes. The patient underwent a successful appendectomy with complete recovery.

Keywords

computed tomography - appendicitis - fishbone - foreign body

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