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PASSED SPONTANEOUSLY PER VIAS NATURALES

DAVID C. STRAUS, M.D.; I. HARRISON TUMPEER, M.D.

Am J Dis Child. 1930;40(1):96-100.

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L. B., a boy, aged 10 months, swallowed a small brass safety-pin at about 8 a. m. on Dec. 21, 1929. The mother telephoned to one of us (I. H. T.), saying that the baby had swallowed either a small safety-pin or a part of a tinker toy. The mother was instructed to take the child to the office that afternoon in order that a fluoroscopic examination could be made. The examination showed an open safety-pin in the fundus of the stomach. The infant was sent to Michael Reese Hospital in order to have a roentgenogram taken.

The child entered the hospital at 6: 50 p. m., and a roentgenogram was taken at once and promptly developed (fig. 1). This showed that the pin had already passed through the stomach, had traversed a portion of the jejunum and lay in the right upper quadrant of the abdomen. Dr. D. C. . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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CHICAGO

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Submitted for publication, Jan. 22, 1930.

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