Foreign bodies are a common problem seen in otolaryngological practice. Of the reported foreign bodies, metallic foreign bodies are a rare entity. One of the least common complications of foreign body ingestion is penetration and migration. We describe a case of a migrating metallic foreign body in a 50-year-old woman with a history of accidental ingestion causing odynophagia. In the present ca...

Retained esophageal foreign bodies are uncommon in pediatric practice and they should be endoscopically removed as soon as possible. In our patient, the appropriate management for coin ingestion was not done at the time of ingestion and thus led to retained foreign body and stricture formation. Esophageal stricture resulting from a long-standing lodgment of metallic foreign bodies has been repo...

We describe a case of lower abdominal pain caused by a twig tea impaction at the rectosigmoid junction after inadvertent ingestion. The foreign body was detected and successfully dislodged from the colonic wall with grasping forceps during colonoscopy. The post-procedural course was uneventful, and the patient was discharged 10 days after the removal. Colonic injury, including perforation due t...

Foreign body ingestion is a common condition, especially among children who represent 80% of these emergencies. The most frequently ingested foreign bodies in children are coins, toys, magnets and batteries. Most foreign body ingestions in adults occur while eating, leading to either bone or meat bolus impaction. Flexible endoscopy is the therapeutic method of choice for relieving food impactio...

AIMS To determine how often ingested foreign bodies are found and what parameters may predict their retrieval. METHODS During 1 year, we prospectively studied all patients referred to our Ear Nose and Throat Emergency Unit because of foreign body ingestion. RESULTS During the study, 204 (median age-42 years [10 months-84 years]) patients were admitted because of ingested foreign body. The m...

Deliberate ingestion of foreign bodies is common amongst prison inmates. The motives behind the ingestion are variable. As the only designated hospital in Northern Ireland treating acute surgical pathologies in the prison population, we reviewed our experience of foreign body ingestion between March 1998 and June 2007. Types of foreign objects, symptomatology, haematological analyses, radiologi...

A 64-year-old female with a history of hypertension, obesity and hyperlipidemia presented to the Gastroenterology clinic with fatigue. Laboratory workup was consistent with iron-deficiency anemia, supported by low mean corpuscular volume and low ferritin. Esophagogastroduodenoscopy (EGD) and colonoscopy were scheduled. EGD revealed two sessile polyps in the body of the stomach and the biopsy wa...

OBJECTIVES (1) To describe clinical and radiologic findings in patients with esophageal foreign bodies. (2) To examine the sensitivity and specificity of history, physical examination, and radiologic studies in children with suspected foreign body ingestion. METHODS A retrospective cohort study was performed evaluating all children who underwent esophagoscopy for suspected foreign body ingest...

INTRODUCTION — Infants put almost everything into their mouths, and toddlers eat just about anything. Of more than 100,000 cases of foreign body ingestion reported each year in the United States, 80 percent occur in children [1-4]. The majority of foreign body ingestions occur in children between the ages of six months and three years [1,5,6]. Fortunately, most foreign bodies that reach the gas...

Importance: An abnormal clinical presentation of foreign body ingestion and its therapeutic approach. Review of the literature to determine rate of perforation along the gastrointestinal tract by foreign body ingestion and to identify appropriate diagnosis and treatment of ingested foreign bodies in the duodenum. Observations: A case report of a 57-year-old female presenting with abdominal pain...