An Adult Case of the Foreign Body A Fish Bone Stuck in the Gastric Wall and with an Endoscope Removed

Abstract

A 65-year-old female visited our hospital due to the epigastralgia. An endoscopic examination for the upper gastrointestinal tract revealed the foreign body stuck in the gastric wall. It was safely removed by an endoscope and ascertained a fish bone. The fish bone was 25mm long and 11mm of it was buried in the gastric wall.
According to the literature, most of patients don't realize they have swallowed foreign bodies by mistake. Adults rarely swallowed them and foreign bodies rarely stay in the stomach. Besides, a fish bone rarely becomes a cause of foreign bodies in the stomach. On this occasion, we encountered an adult case of a foreign body, a fish bone, stuck in the gastric wall and succeeded to remove it endoscopically for the treatment.