A 22-year-old man was admitted with abdominal pain, nausea and vomiting secondary to ingestion of multiple foreign bodies. He was found to be in increasing distress with an increase in abdominal pain and distention and no passage of foreign bodies. Patient underwent a laparotomy. Foreign bodies removed from perforated distal ileum included 8 big size (10 cm) plastic clothes pegs, a 10 cm pencil...

Foreign bodies in the throat are common emergencies in ear nose and throat practice. Usual foreign bodies includes coin, bone piece, fish bone, nails, button, glass pieces, denture, ear ring, chain, pins and needles . There are very few reported cases of a foreign body in the tonsillar substance. Pharyngeal foreign bodies get lodged in the mucosa and may not be visible on routine ENT examinatio...

Intradural foreign bodies after penetrating injuries are seen very rarely. Limited number of cases of glass fragments in the spinal canal were reported previously. Migration of foreign bodies and delayed onset of neurological symptoms due to foreign bodies were also reported. In this report a 33-year-old male patient was presented, who had penetration of glass fragments through ...

Transorbital intracranial injuries due to a wooden foreign body traversing superior orbital fissure is an extremely rare condition. A 9-year-old boy was struck by a tree branch in the left eye while playing in the garden two months ago. On physical examination, the patient had only a hypertrophic scar on his medial side of left upper eyelid at the admission. A history of recurrent cutaneous fis...

The urethra is a usual site of introduction of foreign bodies for autoerotic stimulation. We present an unusual case of bladder perforation caused by foreign body that was self-inserted in the urethra and consequently slipped inside the bladder in a 29-year-old female patient with psychiatric disease. The patient was referred to our department for macroscopic hematuria and abdominal pain. Imagi...

We report a rare case of lens siderosis with an undetectable intraocular foreign body by imaging. An 8-year-old boy presented with diminution of vision in the left eye since 3 months. His parents gave a preceding uncertain history of a foreign body injury to his left eye 3 months ago while playing. Presenting visual acuity in the left eye was perception of hand movements. Slit-lamp examination ...

background foreign body ingestion is a relatively common in children. most ingested foreign bodies spontaneously pass out of the body via the gastrointestinal (gi) system but sharp materials may perforate the gi tract and need to surgical intervention. case presentation  the patient was a 9-year-old girl with progressive abdominal pain for one month and admitted with acute abdomen impression. s...

although uncommon, different kinds of foreign bodies, most of which metallic, have been reported to enter the appendix. the present report describes a case with a metallic foreign body-induced appendicitis, and makes suggestion in regards to the diagnosis and management of the problem. a metallic foreign body was accidentally observed in the right lower quadrant region in an abdominal x-ray tak...

Intraocular foreign body constitutes the 18-41% of penetrating eye injuries. Ten percent of these are localized intralenticularly. Depending on the severity of the trauma and the degree of the disruption of the structural integrity of the lens capsule, crystalline lens can lose its transparency and cataract surgery is needed. Metallic foreign bodies are observed most frequently. In case of iner...

A gentleman suffering from right leg penetrating injury presented to a local accident and emergency department. The physical examination did not suggest an embedded foreign body, and he was discharged after local wound dressing. Because of persisting symptoms, he attended another hospital later where an unguided surgical exploration was performed but no foreign body was identified. He was then ...