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Κυριακή 15 Ιουλίου 2018

Spontaneous migration into the stomach and out of the intestine, as late complication of a gastric band

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A 45-year-old woman with morbid obesity (body mass index 44 kg/m²) presented to the emergency department with severe abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting and no defaecation. She had a laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding (LAGB) inserted elsewhere in 2006. No data or follow-up was performed postoperatively. A CT scan demonstrated a perforated LAGB through the gastric antrum (figure 1). Furthermore the connecting tube perforated the small intestine at the level of the proximal part of the jejunum with a partially intraluminally positioned banding (figure 2), causing prestenotic dilatation of the jejunum (figure 3). An upper gastrointestinal endoscopy confirmed an intact port site with a connected tube and migration and perforation of the band into the jejunum with an erosion of the gastric (figure 4) and duodenal wall. At closer inspection of the port site and connecting tube, we observed a high level...



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