Oesophageal "cross"--a sinister foreign body.
Open Access
- 1 January 1997
- journal article
- case report
- Published by BMJ in Emergency Medicine Journal
- Vol. 14 (1) , 54-55
- https://doi.org/10.1136/emj.14.1.54
Abstract
A young jail inmate purposely ingested a foreign body formed of sewing needles, specially designed to be arrested in the gut and cause perforation. Immediate surgical removal of such ingested foreign objects is recommended because the chances of distal passage are nil.Keywords
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