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Dried apricots: an unusual cause of bowel obstruction

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We report an unusual cause of intestinal obstruction in a 16-month-old boy who presented with abdominal pain of 6 h duration. The patient was thought to have an intussusception, with plain radiographic evidence of a small-bowel obstruction (SBO). A subsequent US examination showed no evidence of intussusception but resulted in a diagnosis of SBO caused by the ingestion of whole dried apricots. The apricots had been eaten several hours earlier and had swelled in the intestinal lumen. The US imaging findings and experimental correlation are presented.

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  1. Department of Medical Imaging, Women’s and Children’s Hospital, 72 King William Road, North Adelaide, South Australia, 5006, Australia

    Lino Piotto & Roger Gent

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Piotto, L., Gent, R. Dried apricots: an unusual cause of bowel obstruction. Pediatr Radiol 35, 1224–1226 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00247-005-1552-1

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