La complicanza perforativa da ingestione di corpi estranei alimentari: una patologia insidiosa sempre attuale. Nostra esperienza

The authors want to present five cases (from May 1999 to May 2009) of acute abdomen from perforation of the foreign body introduced with food. They highlight how the accidental ingestion is very common but the perforation is rare. The preoperative diagnosis, in these cases, is always very difficult and the radiological examinations are not always able to resolve the diagnostic doubt with other acute intestinal diseases that are responsible of perforation. Then, the surgery procedure is, necessarily, the only possible diagnostic and therapeutic means. The mortality and the morbility remain still high first of all for the delay in the diagnosis and the advanced age of patients