Small bowel obstruction of barium for gastric cancer screening

Maho Adachi-Katayama; Hiroki Isono; Junya Kashimura

doi:10.1002/jgf2.387

Small bowel obstruction of barium for gastric cancer screening

J Gen Fam Med. 2020 Oct 12;22(1):57-58. doi: 10.1002/jgf2.387. eCollection 2021 Jan.

Authors

Maho Adachi-Katayama¹, Hiroki Isono², Junya Kashimura¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Medicine Mito Kyodo General Hospital University of Tsukuba Ibaraki Japan.
² Department of General Medicine HITO Medical Center Ehime Japan.

Abstract

We report a case of small bowel obstruction without perforation and peritonitis caused by inspissated barium sulfate for gastric cancer screening and surgically treated 26 hours after the onset of abdominal pain.