J Korean Radiol Soc.  1988 Feb;24(1):14-19. 10.3348/jkrs.1988.24.1.14.

Non-surgical retrieval of foreign bodies

• Park JH
• Shin MJ
• Lim HK
• Kim SH
• Cho KH
• Han MC

• KMID: 2359304
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.3348/jkrs.1988.24.1.14

Abstract

Non-surgical removal of foreign bodies were successfully done in 7 cases in the Department of Radiology, SeoulNational University Hospital from June 1983 to April 1987. In four case of foreign body in cardiovascular system,a broken catheter, which located in descending thoracic aorta, was removed using loop-snare technique, and brokencatheter or disconnected arterial sheaths, which located in right common iliac artery or right femoral artery,were removed using basket techniques in 3 cases. And in two cases of foreign body in urinary system, an internalstent, which located in ileal conduit, was removed using loop-snare technique. And the other was displacedinternal stent which was removed using loop snare technique via percutaneous nephrostomy. And a broken limb ofT-tube in biliary system was removed by basket technique via T-tube tract. There were no complication which wasrelated with those retrieval procedures.

MeSH Terms

Aorta, Thoracic
Biliary Tract
Catheters
Extremities
Foreign Bodies*
Iliac Artery
Nephrostomy, Percutaneous
SNARE Proteins
Stents
Urinary Diversion
SNARE Proteins