The “mule” with golden eggs: Retrieval of unusual foreign body

Foreign body ingestions often consist of benign objects that will readily pass through the gastrointestinal (GI) tract without necessitating further intervention. There are various reports in the literature about intentional ingestion of foreign bodies in prisoners and body packers, which required i...

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Main Authors: Chhavi Wadhwa, Shibumon Madhavan, Alfred J. Augustine, Suresh Shenoy, Abid Mirza
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Thieme Medical and Scientific Publishers Pvt. Ltd. 2015-04-01
Series:Journal of Digestive Endoscopy
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Online Access:http://www.thieme-connect.de/DOI/DOI?10.4103/0976-5042.159247