September 2, 2010

Top 10 Foreign Bodies

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…

Abdominal Foreign Bodies 2 910x1024 Top 10 Foreign Bodies

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

Iron Tablet Overdose

Fortunately mercury thermometers are going out of fashion. Don’t sneeze when your temperature is being taken…

Toxicology Mercury 1024x892 Top 10 Foreign Bodies

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…

Ear Ring FB 218x300 Top 10 Foreign Bodies PaperClip 232x300 Top 10 Foreign Bodies
Screw 177x300 Top 10 Foreign Bodies Spoon I Have Eaten Everything Mum 243x300 Top 10 Foreign Bodies

7 Money in the Bank

Money 10c 3 256x300 Top 10 Foreign Bodies Money 10c 170x300 Top 10 Foreign Bodies
Money 50c AP 300x248 Top 10 Foreign Bodies Money 50c lat 265x300 Top 10 Foreign Bodies

6 Mea culpa

Sometimes cavity penetration occurs through no fault of the patient…

RMB intubation

Right Main Bronchus (RMB) Intubation

NGT Bronchus FB Top 10 Foreign Bodies

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

The Whole Eight Ball 1024x845 Top 10 Foreign Bodies

4 Beware the Button Battery

ButtonBattery 2 228x300 Top 10 Foreign Bodies Button Battery 199x300 Top 10 Foreign Bodies

3 The Classics

Who knew there were so many varieties of electric rolling pins?

Vibrator 001 AP 300x246 Top 10 Foreign Bodies Vibrator 001 Lat 269x300 Top 10 Foreign Bodies
Vibrator 002 AP 300x246 Top 10 Foreign Bodies Vibrator 002 Lat 222x300 Top 10 Foreign Bodies
3266450 300x283 Top 10 Foreign Bodies Vibrator 004 300x273 Top 10 Foreign Bodies

2 Serial Offender

Iron deficiency may be a reason behind the ingestion of some metallic objects.

Abdominal Foreign Bodies

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.

 Top 10 Foreign Bodies

Ingestion of 78 pieces of Cutlery!

MMMmmm Shiny

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?

Feeling Thirsty?

Bottom Bottle Lateral

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About Mike Cadogan
Emergency physician with a passion for medical informatics and medical education. I write medical textbooks and host educational material at Life in the Fast Lane, HealthEngine and Popfossa.com. I write more eclectically on the web as @sandnsurf

Comments

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  4. Ravichandra says:

    What the!A bottle??had never seen something like this…really crazy!

  5. Francesca says:

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  9. Francesca says:

    Pity we can’t find that gerbil x-ray.

  10. Francesca says:

    Was bottle half full or half empty?

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  12. frozen p says:

    Saw a can of Lynx deodorant pulled out of a “cavity” once. At last someone had found the “Missing Lynx.”

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