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Dietary dangers: ingestion of a bread bag clip

¹ Department of Histopathology, UHWHC NHS Trust, Heath Park, Cardiff CF14 4XW, UK

During a routine postmortem evisceration, a segment of jejunum of approximately 20 cm was noted to be doubled back upon itself, with fibrous adhesions joining the two halves of the loop creating a "U" shape. The segment of jejunum was opened along the antimesenteric border, and a bile encrusted foreign body was seen to be attached by a free bridge of mucosa where the bowel doubled back upon itself. The object was removed without damaging the mucosal bridge; removal of the encrusted bile showed the foreign object to be a plastic bread bag clip. There was no date on the clip. The bridge of free mucosa passed through the space behind the tooth-like pincers (fig 1). The amount of bile encrustation and the remarkable growth of a mucosal bridge through the clip suggest that it had been present in this particular segment of jejunum for a considerable time. Its . . . [Full text of this article]

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