Endoscopic management of intentional foreign body ingestion: experience from a UK centre.
Sina YadollahiRyan BuchannanNadeem TehamiBernard StaceyImbadhur RahmanPhilip BogerMark WrightPublished in: Frontline gastroenterology (2021)
In all except those patients with oesophageal impaction of the object on radiograph, there is no need to perform endoscopic extraction out of hours. A subset of cases can avoid endoscopy with an X-ray immediately prior to the procedure as a significant proportion have passed already. We discuss more holistic approaches to deal with recurrent attendances.