A 31-year-old woman recovering from bowel surgery noticed that the feeding tube in her abdomen had disappeared inward. A CT scan traced it through loop after loop of her small intestine, across the one-way valve guarding her colon, and into the ascending colon near her liver, where the inflated balloon on its tip had come to rest.
The case was published Aug. 31 in Discover Medicine by radiologists and surgeons at University College of Medical Sciences in Delhi. What makes it notable is not that a feeding tube moved. It is where the tube ended up, and the fact that the patient felt almost nothing while it happened.
