Radiography
Volume 12, Issue 1 , Pages 31-33, February 2006

A surprise case of colonic interposition

  • Robert Law

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Gastrointestinal Fluoroscopy Unit, Department of Radiology, Frenchay Hospital, Bristol BS16 1LE, United Kingdom

Received 7 February 2005; accepted 20 March 2005.

Abstract 

Blind nasogastric intubation failure as a result of changes to the normal anatomical pathway is not uncommon. This case report is of fluoroscopically guided intubation in a patient in whom blind intubation failed as a result of what was subsequently found to be a colonic interposition with associated late complications.

Fluroscopically guided nasogastric intubation is a safe and effective procedure that should always be considered when blind intubation has failed.

Keywords: Fluoroscopy, Radiographer, Intubation

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PII: S1078-8174(05)00044-1

doi:10.1016/j.radi.2005.03.005

Radiography
Volume 12, Issue 1 , Pages 31-33, February 2006

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