A ‘Double-Balloon Enteroscopy Worth the Money’: Endoscopic Removal of a Coin Lodged in the Small Bowel

Double-balloon enteroscopy (DBE) has become the standard endoscopic method to diagnose and treat disorders of the small bowel. The most common therapeutic applications of DBE are hemostasis, polypectomy and stricture dilation. DBE has also been used to place stents in the small bowel and to retrieve...

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Veröffentlicht in:Digestive diseases (Basel) 2008-01, Vol.26 (4), p.388-389
Hauptverfasser: Neumann, Helmut, Fry, Lucía C., Rickes, Steffen, Jurczok, Christian, Malfertheiner, Peter, Mönkemüller, Klaus
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Zusammenfassung:Double-balloon enteroscopy (DBE) has become the standard endoscopic method to diagnose and treat disorders of the small bowel. The most common therapeutic applications of DBE are hemostasis, polypectomy and stricture dilation. DBE has also been used to place stents in the small bowel and to retrieve foreign bodies such as retained capsule endoscopes. In this report, we describe the removal of a coin that had remained lodged in the jejunum for 8 days.
ISSN:0257-2753
1421-9875
DOI:10.1159/000177029