Case Reports in Gastrointestinal Medicine (Jan 2019)

Gastric Perforation after Chicken Bone Ingestion

  • Kasey Radicic,
  • J. Thomas Dorsey,
  • Rick Greco

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1155/2019/2789031
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 2019

Abstract

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Chicken bone ingestion is a common occurrence that usually passes uneventfully through the digestive tract and rarely results in complications such as perforation, which occurs very rarely within the stomach. We report here a case of a chicken bone ingestion resulting in gastric perforation, which ultimately required surgical correction.