From time to time little things get lost. Whether you are playing billiards naked in the dark; counting money with your tongue; battling with an electric rolling pin….or just ‘slipping’ whilst in the shower….you may be unlucky enough to find yourself in the emergency department desperately trying to manifest a more tangible excuse for foreign body concealment.
These are my top 10 foreign bodies.
10 Not the tastiest treats in the cupboard
Can you identify all the objects – and spot the odd one out…
Ingested Abdominal Foreign Bodies
9 Toxic Ingestions
Iron tablets are among a select group of preparations which are radio-opaque. An X-ray can be a great way of determining the exact number of tablets ingested of this potentially lethal substance.
Iron Tablet Overdose
Fortunately mercury thermometers are going out of fashion. Don’t sneeze when your temperature is being taken…
Mercury Ingestion from shattered thermometer
8 Mmm that looks yummy Mummy
Ear-rings, paper clips, screws and spoons are not liable to degrade quickly upon ingestion…
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7 Money in the Bank
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6 Mea culpa
Sometimes cavity penetration occurs through no fault of the patient…
Right Main Bronchus (RMB) Intubation
Right and Left Bronchus Nasogastric Intubation
5 Not the Full 8-ball
Warning: Playing billiards, naked, in the rain…at night – may result in serious injury
4 Beware the Button Battery
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3 The Classics
Who knew there were so many varieties of electric rolling pins?
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2 Serial Offender
Iron deficiency may be a reason behind the ingestion of some metallic objects.
Can you guess how many objects were ingested?
MMmm – Surgeons in Rotterdam in the Netherlands were flabbergasted when X-rays showed 78 different items of cutlery in the 52-year-old woman’s stomach.
Ingestion of 78 pieces of Cutlery!
MMMmmm Shiny
1 “Can’t Beat the Feeling!”
This is my favourite, mainly because of the inventive excuse used to explain the placement of a 375mL effervescent drink bottle. As a result of the alleged causative event the team at Life in the Fast Lane issue the following warning.
Warning: Narrow necked bottles should not be used to collect urine specimens
Feeling Thirsty?
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X-rays: Top 10 Foreign Bodies http://bit.ly/qpAHS (via @DrVes)
Awesome scary and just in time for Halloween: RT @DrVes: X-rays: Top 10 Foreign Bodies http://bit.ly/qpAHS
RT @DrVes: X-rays: Top 10 Foreign Bodies http://bit.ly/qpAHS
What the!A bottle??had never seen something like this…really crazy!
RT@sandnsurf Top 10 foreign body images http://su.pr/31TQwt – was bottle half full or half empty?
Reading: TOP 10 Foreign Bodies | Life in the Fast Lane: Tehe. People are silly. (and unfortunate) http://bit.ly/384ZoN
Um. This ain't right: Top 10 Foreign Bodies http://bit.ly/qpAHS (via @DrVes)
top 10 foreign bodies http://bit.ly/4pZFOn ahh serious? O_ O #weird
Pity we can’t find that gerbil x-ray.
Was bottle half full or half empty?
Can’t speak for the bottle but I am diagnosing the patient as full of s**t! LOL
Elszabadult vibrátor a végbélben;"meztelenül történő billiárdozás" rektális következménye; a top 10 röntgen idegentest http://bit.ly/qpAHS
Saw a can of Lynx deodorant pulled out of a “cavity” once. At last someone had found the “Missing Lynx.”
*rimshot* brilliant!
Top ten foreign bodies. http://tinyurl.com/ygolpjq (thanks @BiteTheDust, I got distracted with some of the other posts on your link).
Top 10 Foreign Bodies http://bit.ly/8jTINa
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Lame excuses for stuff up the bum is my favourite thing ever. RT @sandnsurf: Top 10 Foreign Bodies http://bit.ly/djq3tk
:/ RT @tealou: Lame excuses for stuff up the bum is my favourite thing ever. RT @sandnsurf: Top 10 Foreign Bodies http://bit.ly/djq3tk
RT @sandnsurf: Top 10 Foreign Bodies http://bit.ly/djq3tk. Slightly distrubing but interesting!