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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
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.
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