Gastroenterology Atlas

Coins are probably the most commonly ingested foreign bodies in children. This 20 month-old girld had a penny, stuck in her esophageal inlet. A coin in the esophagus appears as a round metallic object on an AP projection. As...

Psychiatric patients may swallow a wide variety of objects, including multiple objects, large objects, and bizarre items. The treatment of patients with suspected radiopaque foreign bodies is usually straightforward because these...

Pathophysiology Foreign bodies may involve the entire upper GI tract. The oropharynx is well innervated, and patients can typically localize oropharyngeal foreign bodies. Scratches or abrasions to the mucosal surface of the oropharynx...

The esophagus is a tubular structure approximately 20-25 cm in length. Patients can usually localize foreign bodies in the upper esophagus but localize them poorly in the lower two thirds of the structure. The esophagus has 3 areas...

Multiple objects are seen as key, nails, screws, plastic syringes, plastic spoon, coins etc. Dollar coins are currency as this is the currency used in the Republic of El Salvador

Multiple Foreign bodies in the GI tract At the left of the image are plastic syringes that were swallowed during hospitalization in a psychiatric hospital. The image below is a pvc pipe fitting, also are observed coins, nails...

Gastrointestinal (GI) foreign bodies present a diverse set of challenges to the emergency physician. Presentations range from the obvious to the occult, from the mundane to the bizarre, and from the benign to the life-threatening....

Children account for about 80% of cases of ingested foreign bodies and tend to ingest coins, toys, and other small objects left within their reach. Adult patients at highest risk include psychiatric patients, prisoners, those...

Ingested foreign bodies frequently become lodged in the esophagus, often requiring urgent removal. Much more rarely, objects fail to pass the pylorus or the ileocecal valve. More than 80% of ingested foreign bodies that pass into...

Rectal foreign bodies are usually the result of sexual misadventure or assault, although occasionally a patient will present with an ingested foreign body, such as an animal bone, that passes through the entire gut only to become...