ArticleGastroenterology research and practice2016
Foreign Bodies Ingestion in Children: Experience of 61 Cases in a Pediatric Gastroenterology Unit from Romania.
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- Imaging characteristics of gastrointestinal foreign bodies in children and analysis of risk factors associated with the severity of complications.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2026Article
- Foreign Body Ingestion: Radiologic Evaluation, Findings, and Management.Korean journal of radiology · 2025Review
- Accidental Ingestion of an Open Safety Pin by a Two-Year-Old Male Child: A Case Report.Cureus · 2025Article
- Surgical management protocol for disk battery ingestion.Pediatric surgery international · 2024Review
- Foreign body ingestion in children attending Rapareen Teaching Hospital: a single-centre experience.Przeglad gastroenterologiczny · 2024Article
- Management of Foreign Bodies Crossing the Gastroesophageal Junction in Children.Turkish archives of pediatrics · 2023Article
- Accidental ingestion of foreign bodies/harmful materials in children from Bahrain: A retrospective cohort study.World journal of clinical pediatrics · 2023Article
- Pediatric foreign body ingestion in Makkah, Saudi Arabia: A retrospective epidemiological study.Saudi medical journal · 2023Article
- Suspension Microesophagoscopy: A Simple Diagnostic And Therapeutic Technique For Foreign Body In Esophagus.Indian journal of otolaryngology and head and neck surgery : official publication of the Association of Otolaryngologists of India · 2023Article
- Neck Radiograph Halo Sign: Do Not Be Fooled.Cureus · 2023Article
- Incidental finding of a needle in the root of the mesentery of an 11-month-old boy: A case report.International journal of pediatrics & adolescent medicine · 2021Article
- Foreign object ingestion and esophageal food impaction: An update and review on endoscopic management.World journal of gastrointestinal endoscopy · 2019Review
- Patterns and Complications of Ingested Foreign Bodies in Omani Children.Oman medical journal · 2018Article
- Button battery ingestion in children-a potentially catastrophic event of which all radiologists must be aware.The British journal of radiology · 2018Review
- Foreign body in the gastrointestinal tract in children: A tertiary hospital experience.African journal of paediatric surgery : AJPSArticle
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Abstract
The ingestion of foreign bodies is a worldwide pediatric pathology. We assessed the clinical, endoscopic, and therapeutic aspects of this condition in a pediatric gastroenterology unit. We reviewed 61 patients (median age of 3.25 ± 4.7 years). The most frequently ingested objects were coins (26.23%), unidentified metal objects (13.11%), bones (8.19%), batteries, and buttons (6.55%). The clinical features we encountered included abdominal pain (55.73%), vomiting (34.42%), and asymptomatic children (29.5%). Routine X-ray examination enabled finding the foreign body in 42 of the cases. An esophagogastroduodenoscopy was performed within 24-72 hours. 25 cases resulted in a negative endoscopy (40.98%), 19 objects (31.14%) were removed using a polypectomy snare, and extraction failure occurred in 17 patients (27.86%). 28 foreign bodies were passed without incidents; in 14 cases, the swallowed objects were never found. In one case, a battery was stuck in the esophageal folds and led to tracheal-esophageal fistula and bronchopneumonia and later to esophageal stenosis. We report a large proportion of foreign bodies that could not be identified or removed due to lack of early endoscopy and poor technical settings. Batteries and sharp objects lead to severe complications and preschool-age children are at high risk for such events.
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