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| Hepatic abscess resulted from a toothpick piercing the gastric wall into the liver |
| Cui-Fei Luo a , b , c , Jia Xu a , b , c , Yuan-Qiang Lu a , b , c , ∗ |
a Department of Emergency Medicine, The First Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou 310003, China
b Department of Geriatric Medicine, The First Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou 310003, China
c Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory for Diagnosis and Treatment of Aging and Physic-chemical Injury Diseases, The First Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou 310003, China
∗ Corresponding author at: Department of Emergency Medicine, The First Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou 310003, China.
E-mail address: luyuanqiang@zju.edu.cn (Y.-Q. Lu). |
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Abstract Foreign bodies’ ingestion is a common phenomenon, and most of the ingested foreign bodies pass through the gut uneventfully. In clinical practice, less than 1% of these patients develop complications such as gut wall penetration or perforation [1-3] . We present a rare complication of hepatic abscess secondary to the toothpick piercing the gastric wall into the liver. The abscess was successfully treated by endoscopic retrieval of the foreign body and empirical antibiotic therapy, without drainage or laparotomy.
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2020, Vol. 19 
