Disorder of the gastrointestinal tract of the dairy cattle is common due to indiscriminate feeding behavior. An ingested foreign body by cattle is divided in to two main groups. The first category is foreign bodies of nonmetallic origin and the second category is metallic origin. Entrance and migration of foreign bodies through the body tissue leads to many complications that differ according t...

Accidental ingestion of foreign bodies is common in ENT practice. A very small number of ingested foreign bodies perforate the esophagus and even a smaller fraction of extra mucosal migration penetrates into the soft tissues of the neck. Most cases reported in the literature involve fish bones. If left untreated, they may result in life threatening complications. This case presents a patient wi...

A 24-year-old patient with a background of paranoid schizophrenia presented to the emergency department with upper gastrointestinal bleeding. He admitted that because of recurring headaches he had been using ibuprofen for a few weeks preceding admission. Emergency endoscopy was performed and revealed several metallic foreign bodies covered with clots in the body of the stomach (●" Fig.1), and g...

The purpose of this article is to report a case of an asymptomatic intralenticular metallic foreign body that was retained for 6 months. A 66-year-old male visited our ophthalmology department because of decreased visual acuity in his left eye 6 months after he suffered ocular trauma while mowing. He had not been treated because he did not experience any discomfort. His corrected visual acuity ...

A positive response from a metal detector when run over an area of the body is a strong positive indicator of the presence of a metallic object. If there is a possibility of a buried metallic foreign body this positive finding should not be ignored.

EDUCATIONAL OBJECTIVES At the conclusion of this presentation, the participants should be able to discuss how imaging and intra-operative facial nerve monitoring may be used in the removal of selected intraparotid foreign body without parotidectomy and dissection of the facial nerve. OBJECTIVES 1) To present a rare case of a metallic intraparotid foreign body introduced as a projectile; 2) to...