- 著者
- Xin-Liang Lu He-Long Cao Ke-Da Qian
- 出版者
- The Japanese Society of Internal Medicine
- 雑誌
- Internal Medicine (ISSN:09182918)
- 巻号頁・発行日
- vol.47, no.20, pp.1797-1798, 2008 (Released:2008-10-15)
- 参考文献数
- 6
- 被引用文献数
- 8 8
A rare case is reported with a large foreign body in the upper gastrointestinal tract. A 19-year-old girl accidentally swallowed her toothbrush which was successfully removed via endoscopy using a polypectomy snare under topical pharyngeal anesthesia. The extracted toothbrush was 20 cm long, and it had the characteristic radiographic image.