A FOREIGN BODY IN A CHILD FROM A PARTIALLY DISABLED PART OF THE COLON WITH COLON-COLON SIDE-TO-SIDE ANASTOMOSIS

Foreign bodies of the gastrointestinal tract in children of younger age group are the quite frequent pathology. In most cases, they pass unhindered through the gastrointestinal tract. However, serious complications requiring the urgent surgical treatment may occur. In our clinical practice, there was a case of the presence of a foreign body (coins) for 2 weeks in the disconnected part of the colon-colon anastomosis in an earlier operated child for ulcerative necrotic enterocolitis complicated by colonic stenosis that could not be detected during fibrocolonoscopy. Thanks to an individual approach to the patient, it became possible to remove a foreign body without opening the gut.

foreign body, colonic anastomosis, radiograph, fibrocolonoscopy, operation