Citation

Losanoff JE, Kjossev KT, Losanoff HE. J. Accid. Emerg. Med. 1997; 14(1): 54-55.

Affiliation

Department of Emergency Surgery, Military Medical Academy, Sofia, Bulgaria.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1997, BMJ Publishing Group)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

9023630

PMCID

PMC1342852

Abstract

A young jail inmate purposely ingested a foreign body formed of sewing needles, specially designed to be arrested in the gut and cause perforation. Immediate surgical removal of such ingested foreign objects is recommended because the chances of distal passage are nil.

Language: en