Hepatic Foreign Body – a Sewing Needle – in a Child

We report a case of a 1-year-old boy with a needle-like foreign body embedded in the liver. The foreign body was incidentally found in the right hypochondrium on routine chest X-ray during a periodic medical examination. He was asymptomatic and there was neither a history of swallowing a needle nor...

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Main Authors: Yuko Nishimoto, Sachiyo Suita, Tomoaki Taguchi, Shin-ichi Noguchi, Satoshi Ieiri
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2003-10-01
Series:Asian Journal of Surgery
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1015958409603110