Archive for January, 2008

Fishing in different context!

Friday, January 4th, 2008

A young boy swallowed a foreign object and presented to us a few days later. He was otherwise well but the parents were very anxious. This was his Abdominal Xrays.

A closer look:

What is that?
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So we decided to go fishing. We put in a scope (OGDS) and found the foreign object.

Used a net basket to catch it and took it out slowly through the mouth.

The marble:

Please don’t put objects into your mouth!