[Application of extracorporeal lithotripsy in intestinal subocclusion caused by a clam shell]

Rev Esp Enferm Dig. 1994 Aug;86(2):612-4.
[Article in Spanish]

Abstract

A patient with intestinal obstruction secondary to a foreign body (clam shell) impacted in the ileocecal valve was treated by extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy. The resolution of ileus without complications was obtained.

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • English Abstract

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Bivalvia*
  • Female
  • Foreign Bodies / complications
  • Foreign Bodies / therapy*
  • Humans
  • Intestinal Obstruction / etiology
  • Intestinal Obstruction / therapy*
  • Lithotripsy*
  • Middle Aged
  • Shellfish*