Foreign bodies of the esophagus and gastrointestinal tract in children
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INTRODUCTION — Infants put almost everything into their mouths, and toddlers eat just about anything. Of more than 100,000 cases of foreign body ingestion reported each year in the United States, 80 percent occur in children [1-4]. The majority of foreign body ingestions occur in children between the ages of six months and three years [1,5,6]. Fortunately, most foreign bodies that reach the gastrointestinal tract pass spontaneously. Only 10 to 20 percent will require endoscopic removal, and less than 1 percent require surgical intervention [1,5,7]. Although mortality from foreign body ingestion is extremely low, deaths have been reported [5,8,9] .
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