2020 Volume 62 Issue 1 Pages 59-64
A 70-year-old male complained of abdominal pain during hospitalization for pneumonia. Plain abdominal computed tomography showed multiple enteroliths in the terminal ileum, and colonoscopy showed stenosis of Bauhinʼs ileocecal valve. Due to the failure to crush or retrieve enteroliths by the single balloon dilation (18mm) procedure, the double balloon dilation procedure was performed to obtain a larger expansion (15mm＋20mm). After double balloon valve dilation, seven true enteroliths were retrieved by a mechanical lithotripter. Our literature search did not reveal any study reporting double balloon dilation of Bauhinʼs ileocecal valve. In this paper, we report a case of incarcerated enteroliths treated successfully by double balloon dilation without surgery.
