Abstract
Unintentional ingestion of foreign bodies is common in daily life. The unintentional ingestion of sharp foreign bodies such as toothpicks, fish bones and chicken bones carries a significant risk of perforation of the gastrointestinal tract. Herein, we report a case of hepatic inflammatory mass complicated by the perforation of an ingested toothpick that had a distinctive enhancement pattern on dynamic computed tomograms (CT). Understanding the phenomenon of enhancement in triphasic CT study is the basis in differentiating liver neoplasms. Copyright (C) 2000 Elsevier Science Inc.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 93-95 |
Number of pages | 3 |
Journal | Clinical Imaging |
Volume | 24 |
Issue number | 2 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 2000 |
Keywords
- Computed tomography
- Foreign body
- Hepatic mass
- Toothpick perforation