Clasp knife in the gut: a case report

Clasp knife in the gut: a case report

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Abstract Background A wide range of foreign bodies has been retrieved from the gut and 12n/1200 wella reported.The presentation may be in the form of complications like intestinal obstruction, perforation and formation of abscesses etc but there is no case report of a half open clasp knife being retrieved from the ileum, the patient having thrived, in spite of its presence for a period of eight months.Case presentation A 30-year-old administrative clerk had undergone emergency abdominal surgery eight months previously under mysterious circumstances at a remote district hospital and had recovered completely.

Later the blade of a knife was accidentally detected when an X ray of the abdomen was done during a routine follow-up visit to his family physician.Surgery revealed a clasp knife in the ileum, which was retrieved.The presence of an entero-enteric fistula short ashy bines protein powder circuiting the loop was the secret of his earlier survival.

Conclusions To the best of our information this is the first case-report of a clasp knife in the gut and of the patient thriving in spite of its presence.We report here the dramatic sequence of events.