Download PDF
Endoscopy 2001; 33(4): 390
DOI: 10.1055/s-2001-13688
Images in Focus

© Georg Thieme Verlag Stuttgart · New York

Uneventful Endoscopic Retrieval of a Cannibalized Aortic Trouser Graft

M. A. Narain, B. J. Jones
  • Dept. of Gastroenterology, Dudley Hospitals NHS Trust, UK
Further Information

Publication History

Publication Date:
31 December 2001 (online)

Also available at
   Permissions and Reprints

Figure 1A 60-year-old man with bilateral amputations presented in November 1999 with mild hemiparesis and microcytic anaemia. At routine gastroscopy, a gallstone-like object was seen to fill the distal duodenal bulb. This was snared and, upon retrieval, the abdominal portion of a Dacron aortic trouser graft followed. The patient made an uneventful recovery and returned to a normal diet. The figure shows that the distal portion of the graft, previously inserted with recovery of pedal pulses in 1988, had migrated into the duodenum and had become bile-encrusted.

B. J. M. Jones

Dept. of Gastroenterology
Dudley Hospitals NHS Trust

West Midlands
DY1 2HQ
United Kingdom

Fax: Fax:+44-7092-104679

Email: E-mail:manarain@doctors.net.uk

      >