The foreign bodies of the esophagus are observed at any age. They are more common in children. The nature of foreign body depend on eating habits or age of patient. The complications are rare and are related either to the type of these foreign bodies or the mechanism of extraction. The extraluminal migration of foreign body through the oesophagus is known to cause bleeding and perforation These...

Pediatricians and emergency room specialists are routinely faced with the challenge of management of young patients who are suspected to have accidentally swallowed foreign objects. These objects can become a pathologic esophageal or airway foreign body. The persisting esophageal foreign body, one that does not pass spontaneously through the gastrointestinal tract, is suspected based on patient...

Introduction: Foreign-body aspiration is still considered one of the most important diagnostic and therapeutic issues for physicians. Mortality rates and the prevalence of diseases caused by foreign bodies in the airway are higher in children because of the relatively narrow airway and immature protective mechanisms. The aim of this study was to study the pattern of foreign-body aspiration in t...

INTRODUCTION The common late complications of foreign body aspiration include granulation formation, obstructive pneumonia, and atelectasis. However, a foreign body-induced pleural infection is very rare, and especially when it is not iatrogenic. CASE DESCRIPTION A 64-year-old Chinese man was admitted to our hospital with septic shock and acute respiratory failure requiring intubation and mec...

Foreign bodies usually do not cause complications and pass through the gastrointestinal tract spontaneously. Usually endoscopic intervention is recommended within 24 hours. Cases of acute appendicitis caused by foreign bodies are very rare. In our case, we experienced successful endoscopic and surgical treatment of a patient with ingestion of razor blade and some unrecognizable foreign bodies. ...

INTRODUCTION Corneal foreign bodies are reported to be the second most common type of ocular injury. Anterior segment optical coherence tomography (AS-OCT) is a valuable tool for the early diagnosis and monitoring the progress of treatment in cases of ocular trauma. Herein we aimed to report on a patient with an intra-corneal foreign body and the role of AS-OCT in management. CASE PRESENTATIO...

Ingested foreign bodies tend to pass through the gastrointestinal tract without incidence, and vast majority of cases do not need intervention. Rarely, these foreign bodies drop into the appendix and not likely to re-enter the normal digestive tract. We describe a case of a 72-year-old male patient who presented with right iliac fossa pain of 3-day duration. Clinical examination suggested class...

Penetrating sacral injuries are very rare, but foreign bodies that penetrate the sacrum often cause pain, cerebrospinal fluid leakage, and neurological symptoms. Careful preoperative medical and imaging examinations, determining the position of the foreign body, and surgical exploration are essential in the management of such cases. We present the case of a woman who visited our emergency depar...

Foreign accent syndrome (FAS) is a rare speech output disorder characterized by articulation of speech perceived by listeners (often including the patient) as sounding “foreign.” From Monrad-Krohn’s seminal paper in 1947 1 describing a Norwegian woman who, as a result of head trauma, began speaking with a German-sounding accent, several cases of FAS have been reported. Usually occurring in cons...

We present a case report of an unusual large foreign body (FB) in Rectum which was retrieved successfully by trans anal route. Our patient presented with retained rectal foreign body following an assault while travelling in train, he was made unconscious and was later found in a pool of blood with per rectal oozing. Patient was then evaluated and trans anal retrieval of FB was carried out succe...