Swallowed whole

Swallowed foreign body.

An incidentally swallowed toothbrush.

Although foreign body (FB) ingestion is relatively common,ingestion of a toothbrush is rare. We are reporting on a 26-year old female who had accidentally swallowed a toothbrush, which was successfully removed via endoscopy using a polypectomy snare.

Swallowed table “Spoon”!

We followed this method of rescue as described by Gupta et al.,[2] however, with a slight modification. Instead of a nasogastric tube, we preferred to use the suction catheter. Moreover, ventilation in our patient was uninterrupted due to the use of flexible cathmount [Figure 1a]. The flexibility of suction catheter becomes an advantage when it comes to the process of withdrawing the oral end f...

A postmortem experience of Indian rock python that swallowed a whole barking deer

The object of this study was to report a post mortem findings of a female Indian Rock Python with a length of 406 cm (13.32 feet) and approximate weight of 60 kg (including a whole deer that was swallowed by the python), that was brought to the Teaching Veterinary Hospital, Chittagong Veterinary and Animal Sciences University (CVASU) by the Forest Department of Kumira Range Office, Chittagong. ...

Inhaled and Swallowed Foreign Bodies

' By KENNEDY HUNTER, M.B., F.R.C.S., D.L.O. Hon. Assistant Surgeon, E.N.T. Dept., Royal Victoria Hospital, Hon. Surgeon, E.N.T. Dept., Belfast Ophthalmic Hospital IN reviewing the early medical literature, one is impressed with the relative scarcity of references to foreign bodies in the air passages; practically all the earlier cases were cesophageal. This must be due to failure of recognition...