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20-07-2022 | DDS–SIRC Cooperative Conferences
Pesky Pesce: A Forgettable Fish Dinner with a Late Surprise, a Perianal Abscess
Published in: Digestive Diseases and Sciences | Issue 9/2022
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Clinical presentation after ingestion of foreign body is a common finding in surgical practice. Perianal sepsis due to a foreign body is, usually, secondary to introduction via the trans-anal route. The case here reported is extremely rare since an ingested fishbone passed asymptomatically through most of the gastrointestinal tract, with resultant late-onset ischiorectal abscess. Moreover, clinical evidence of the perianal abscess manifested one month after the fishbone had been ingested. The final localization of the fishbone—lying anterior to the sacrum—complicated the preoperative and intraoperative detection of the ingested foreign body.