Journal of Clinical Images and Medical Case Reports
ISSN 2766-7820
Clinical Image - Open Access, Volume 5
A long foreign body swallowed and spontaneously defecated in a child
*Corresponding Author : Mohammad Ali Mahdiabadi
Department of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine,
Birjand University of Medical Sciences, Birjand, Iran.
Email: [email protected]
Received : Jul 10, 2024
Accepted : Jul 25, 2024
Published : Aug 01, 2024
Archived : www.jcimcr.org
Copyright : © Mahdiabadi MA (2024).
Citation: Mahdiabadi MA. A long foreign body swallowed and spontaneously defecated in a child. J Clin Images Med Case Rep. 2024; 5(8): 3188.
Description
A 33-month-old girl without any underlying diseases accidentally swallowed a small screwdriver. She had initially symptoms like coughing and suffocation, which improved within a few minutes. After a few hours, when they went to the hospital and an X-ray was taken, they learnt about its presence in the patient’s body. Considering that the child did not have significant clinical symptoms and there was no abnormality in the examination she was monitored at home and followed up with serial radiographs. After about 67 hours, the above-mentioned foreign body was defecated along with the patient’s feces and the patient did not have any symptoms thereafter.
