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Oesophageal "cross"--a sinister foreign body
J E Losanoff1, K T Kjossev, H E Losanoff
1Department of Emergency Surgery, Military Medical Academy, Sofia, Bulgaria.
Journal of Accident & Emergency Medicine
|January 1, 1997
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.