Case Description
A 59-year-old female presented to the emergency department with
epigastric pain. Computed tomography of the abdomen showed a linear,
hyperdense, foreign body migrating from the gastrointestinal tract to
pancreas. An emergency laparoscopic surgery was performed. The foreign
body was safely removed laparoscopically and was identified as a
3-cm-long fish bone (video S1). Very few cases of an ingested fish bone
that migrated into the pancreas have been published in the literature so
far (1). The patient recovered without complications and was discharged.
Laparoscopic surgery could be performed safely for the removal of an
ingested foreign body embedded in the pancreas.
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Keywords: Pancreas, foreign body, laparoscopic surgery, fish
bone