?Fruit Pit Obstruction Leading to the Diagnosis of Crohn?s Disease,? D. Kaufman, M. Lazinger, S. Fogel and S.K. Dutta, American Journal of Surgery, vol. 182, no. 5 , November 2001, p. 530 (http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0002-9610(01)00810-8).
The authors report that:
Fruit pit ingestion is an unusual cause of intestinal obstruction — and even more so in our patient as it led to the discovery of Crohn?s disease.
(That’s an excerpt from the article “AIRhead Medical Review,” published in AIR 11:1.)