@article{ref1,
title="Bamboo skewer perforation of the bowel: computed tomography appearances",
journal="Australasian radiology",
year="1997",
author="Peh, W. C. and Helpert, C. and Chan, C. W.",
volume="41",
number="3",
pages="308-310",
abstract="A 25-year-old Chinese woman presented with a painful left-lower-quadrant abdominal mass. Computed tomography (CT) demonstrated a dense forked foreign body within an extraluminal mass. A 2.5 cm bamboo skewer surrounded by inflamed omentum was found at laparotomy. Different CT densities of bamboo skewers were obtained when exposed to air, water and 2% Gastrografin in an in vitro experiment. Awareness of the possible variations in appearances of wooden foreign bodies in and around the bowel may aid their CT diagnoses.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0004-8461",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}