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CASE REPORT
Unusual presentation of a retained foreign body in a child
  1. Sultan Almuallem1,
  2. Yasmin A M Yousef2,
  3. Abdulmalik Suhail3
  1. 1Department of Surgery KAMC-JD, National Guard Health Affairs, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
  2. 2Department of surgery, Pediatric surgery section, KAMC-JD, KSAU-HS (COM-J) National Guard Health Affairs, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
  3. 3Department of surgery, Pediatric surgery section, KAMC-JD, National Guard Health Affairs, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
  1. Correspondence to Dr Yasmin Abdulaziz Yousef, yousefya{at}ngha.med.sa

Summary

A 4-year-old boy, not known to have any medical illness, presented to several medical facilities reporting right upper quadrant and right flank pain, intermittent fever and chills for 3 months. A CT of the abdomen showed that a swallowed ‘bobby pin’ had pierced through the right kidney. This finding explained the boy's symptoms. The pin was removed by laparotomy without any subsequent complication. The patient had an uneventful postoperative recovery.

http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bcr-2015-210997

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