Eating grilled beef with betel leaves, swallowing toothpicks

On February 25, Vung Tau Hospital (Ba Ria - Vung Tau) announced that the hospital's medical team had successfully removed a toothpick stuck in the antrum of a 50-year-old female patient.

Endoscopy to remove toothpick inserted into the antrum of a female patient

Accordingly, the patient, Ms. H. (residing in Ward Thang Nhi, Vung Tau City) was admitted to Vung Tau Hospital for emergency treatment with severe abdominal pain.

The patient’s family said that on the evening of February 22, Ms. H. went to a restaurant in Vung Tau City with her family. While eating grilled beef with betel leaves, Ms. H. swallowed a toothpick that was embedded in the dish.

At 5:00 a.m. on February 23, Ms. H. had severe abdominal pain and was taken to Vung Tau Hospital by her family for emergency treatment. Through examination and gastric endoscopy, doctors discovered a foreign object resembling a toothpick about 3 cm long stuck in the patient's antrum.

"This is a rather complicated case of a foreign object because it has lodged itself in the stomach wall. The process of removing it through the stomach can easily cause damage to the stomach and esophagus, especially the risk of esophageal perforation," a doctor at Vung Tau Hospital assessed.

The medical team at Vung Tau Hospital quickly performed an endoscopy and successfully removed the foreign object, a toothpick, without causing complications for the patient.

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