Letter in Reply: Foreign Body Ingestion in Children, the Role of X-ray
Journal Title: Oman Medical Journal - Year 2019, Vol 34, Issue 6
Abstract
We thank the reader for his question. Not all children who had history of foreign body (FB) ingestion required X-ray. This is particularly true if the FB was translucent, which was the case in about 20% of ingested FBs.1 Amongst the miscellaneous group in our study, we had children who had ingested pieces of paper wrappings, small parts of plastic toys, plastic shirt buttons, and tiny fragments of glass and rubber. None of them required X-ray as all these objects are translucent on X-ray.
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Tawfiq Taki Al Lawati
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