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  • Title: Foreign body causing chronic subacute small bowel obstruction: an unusual case from Harare Hospital.
    Author: Da Silva EJ, Golakai VK.
    Journal: Cent Afr J Med; 1998 Jan; 44(1):16-8. PubMed ID: 9631109.
    Abstract:
    This report describes the clinical presentation, diagnostic work up and surgical management of a rare case of a wedge-shaped organic foreign body found lodged transversely in the wall of the terminal ileum at laparotomy in a 74 year old woman operated on for segmental constrictive intestinal obstruction. The presence of foreign bodies in the gastro-intestinal tract as causative agents of intestinal obstruction is discussed.
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