Case Report - Current Pediatric Research (2017) Volume 21, Issue 4

A case of unusual foreign body ingestion in a toddler.

The ingestion of foreign body is one of the important childhood emergency requiring urgent care depending on type and site of impaction. Many a times ingestion remains unrecognized and asymptomatic. We report a similar case of metallic foreign body which passed through anus asymptomatic, in spite of expert surgeon's advice of endoscopic removal.

Author(s): Joydeep Das, Jyoti Kiran, Suman Mondal, Balram Gupta

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