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Seven days after undergoing an upper-gastrointestinal series, a 39-year-old woman presented with an obstruction of the colon resulting from a 5-cm barium concretion in the proximal sigmoid colon. The mass was broken into small pieces with a high-pressure water jet and biopsy forceps. See the NEJM article “Barium Concretion Causing Obstipation“