Common organic materials like thorns, wood and sand constitute routine accident scene flora and comprise a large percentage of foreign bodies. These low radiopaque foreign bodies present a diagnostic challenge and are routinely missed. In musculoskeletal injuries, failure to detect these foreign bodies may lead to infection, morbidity and patient dissatisfaction. A universal investigation proto...

We present two cases of self-inflicted urethrovesical foreign body in children. Case 1 was a 6-year-old girl admitted with a history of self-introduction of a pin. The X-ray revealed the pin as 3.5 cm in length and in the bladder. The foreign body was removed endoscopically. Case 2 was a 13-year-old boy with a self-introduced packing needle, 13 cm in length, partially in the urethra. The end an...

Hemostatic agents, routinely used in neurosurgery to achieve intraoperative hemostasis may cause foreign body reaction. These may produce clinically symptomatic and radiologically apparent mass lesions. It should be kept in mind that retained cotton or rayon materials may mimic the appearance of a tumor or an abscess on MRI scan, especially at sides of previous craniotomies. Here we report a ca...

Foreign body aspiration (FBA) is a potentially life-threatening event, more common in children than in adults. In the year 2001 in Italy, inhaled FB accounted for 30 deaths from respiratory obstruction in children [1]. The signs and symptoms of FBA vary according to the age of the subject, the type of object aspirated, the location of the object, and the elapsed time since the event. The remova...

The presence of a foreign body in the periapical tissues can cause endodontic failure by triggering an inflammatory response and a subsequent foreign body reaction. This inflammatory response, which can occur to varying degrees, appears radiographically as a radiolucency that can remain asymptomatic for many years. A foreign object can reach the apical region by accident or iatrogenic procedure...

We investigate the hypothesis that workers in foreign-owned establishments face greater job insecurity. Using linked employer employee data from Germany, we examine whether foreign-owned establishments are more likely to exit production, and whether workers in foreign-owned establishments face higher separation rates, net of establishment exit. We find that, after controlling for the different ...

UNLABELLED Accidental or intentional ingestion of sharp metallic foreign bodies is a common clinical occurrence. Predisposing factors include excessive alcohol intake, mental impairment and psychiatric illnesses. Usually, the detection of a migratory foreign body is incidental when patients present with unrelated symptoms. A 50-year-old woman attended the surgical outpatient clinic with a forei...

much alike that serological experiment shows that by the presence of syphilis-antigen the presence in the serum of a yaws patient of framboesia-antibodies is made evident (by complement, deviation), yet the two diseases are distinct. For, as Charlouis pointed out, many years ago, the fact that a man is suffering from yaws does not protect him against luetic infection, and conversely, as Neisser...

STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM Impaction of foreign bodies in the soft tissues is a sequela of traumatic and penetrating injuries. Such foreign bodies should be removed due to the complications they cause. Patient's history, clinical evaluation and imaging examinations aid in the proper detection and localization of the foreign bodies. PURPOSE The aim of the present study was to compare the sensiti...

AIM Foreign body detection and determining whether it is adjacent to critical organs has a significant role in its removal. Various imaging techniques have been used to locate foreign bodies. This study aimed to compare cone beam computed tomography (CBCT) and digital radiography for detecting foreign bodies in an in vitro model. MATERIALS AND METHODS Foreign bodies composed of normal glass, ...