Esophageal foreign body (EFB) ingestion is of ubiquitous occurrence in pediatric population. Diagnosis and precise localization of non-radio opaque FB poses considerable challenge. Delayed presentation, poor history, and inconclusive esophagoscopic findings often lead to diagnostic delay. Multidetector computed tomography (MDCT) could be a great option in these situations. We present a case of ...

We present two cases of self-inflicted urethrovesical foreign body in children. Case 1 was a 6-year-old girl admitted with a history of self-introduction of a pin. The X-ray revealed the pin as 3.5 cm in length and in the bladder. The foreign body was removed endoscopically. Case 2 was a 13-year-old boy with a self-introduced packing needle, 13 cm in length, partially in the urethra. The end an...

Foreign body aspiration (FBA) is a potentially life-threatening event, more common in children than in adults. In the year 2001 in Italy, inhaled FB accounted for 30 deaths from respiratory obstruction in children [1]. The signs and symptoms of FBA vary according to the age of the subject, the type of object aspirated, the location of the object, and the elapsed time since the event. The remova...

The presence of a foreign body in the periapical tissues can cause endodontic failure by triggering an inflammatory response and a subsequent foreign body reaction. This inflammatory response, which can occur to varying degrees, appears radiographically as a radiolucency that can remain asymptomatic for many years. A foreign object can reach the apical region by accident or iatrogenic procedure...

Intraorbital foreign bodies usually occur after a high velocity injury such as gunshot or industrial accidents; more rarely they occur following trivial trauma. A retained foreign body can give rise to serious complications, the most devastating of which is loss of the eye. This retrospective, interventional case report reviews the clinical features, radiological appearance and surgical managem...

IT is often difficult to locate an intra-ocular foreign body. Sometimes it may be seen and localized by biomicroscopy, ophthalmoscopy, gonioscopy, or diaphanoscopy. Yet radiological examination is necessary in every case, because the foreign body seen by the foregoing methods is not invariably the only one present in the eye. Although x-ray methods (Comberg, Dixon, Goldmann and Bangerter, Sweet...

Hue Mohun, a Hindu boy, aged 12 years, was brought to the dispensary at Hungpore on the 3rd December, 1871. He had a very thin chip of bamboo accidentally fixed into the cornea of his right eye. The chip had gone through the thickness of the cornea for about a quarter of an inch, and then just protruded into the aqueous humor, but the outer end was not protruding externally. The whole length of...