Retained Rice Cake: A Unique Upper Gastrointestinal Foreign Body: Case Report and a Literature Review.

Retained Rice Cake: A Unique Upper Gastrointestinal Foreign Body: Case Report and a Literature Review. Intern Med. 2019 Jun 07;: Authors: Oka A, Ishihara S, Mikami H, Sonoyama H, Mishiro T, Tobita H, Kawashima K, Miyake T, Ishimura N, Furuta K, Kinoshita Y, Nishina M Abstract As a rarely recognized foreign body in the upper gastrointestinal tract, rice cake frequently requires endoscopic removal. We herein report six patients with characteristic sonography, computed tomography (CT), spectroscopy, endoscopy, and histological findings. A review of all published cases, including ours, revealed that retained rice cake in the stomach typically shows the following: abdominal pain (93.3%), mucosal injury (93.3%) with bleeding (42.9%); high-density (120-206 Hounsfield units) CT findings; and indication for endoscopy (80%). In the esophagus, hot, toasted rice cake causes thermal injury. Primary physicians should be aware of this popular-food-induced, but rare, disorder. PMID: 31178509 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
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