[Foreign bodies in the digestive tract]

Our experience in 10 years in management of foreign bodies in the Gastrointestinal Tract is presented. We are at the Urgency Department, Hospital General de Mexico, S.S. We made 5580 endoscopy studies, 457 (8.1%) being performed in search of foreign bodies, in upper and lower G-I. Confirmation and endoscopic management was done in 218 patients (47.7%), being excluded in 239 (52.3%). We used both, flexible and rigid scopes, with a lower percentage of complications and high rate success in removing theme.