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Use of a metal detector in the location of a swallowed razor blade in the oesophagus

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 June 2007

Alexander Kessler ,
Alon Yellin ,
A. Kessler  and
Jona Kronenberg
Alexander Kessler
Affiliation:
Department of Plastic Surgery, Tel Hashomer and Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel.
Alon Yellin
Affiliation:
Department of Chest Surgery, Tel Hashomer and Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel.
A. Kessler*
Affiliation:
Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer and Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Jona Kronenberg
Affiliation:
Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Tel Hashomer and Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel.
*
A. Kessler, MD Department of Plastic Surgery, Sheba Medical Centre, Tel Hashomer 52621, Israel.
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Abstract

A case describing the use of a metal detector to locate a metallic foreign body swallowed by a prisoner. Initial work up included plain thoracic X-rays and a gastrografin swallow which were negative. A metal detector was used to confirm the presence of a metal body in the oesophagus which was verified by a barium swallow.

Type
Research Article
Information
The Journal of Laryngology & Otology , Volume 104 , Issue 5 , May 1990 , pp. 435 - 436
Copyright
Copyright © JLO (1984) Limited 1990

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