What a Mesh: An Unusual Foreign Body Found on Colonoscopy

An 81-year-old man initially presented to an outpatient clinic with right lower quadrant pain. His medical history was significant for right-sided inguinal and ventral hernia repair 16 years earlier, with 3 subsequent revisions. Otherwise, he was healthy, not on any medications, and had never had a colonoscopy before. During his evaluation, cross-sectional imaging showed a markedly thickened and inflamed appearance of the cecum without signs of...