title: Argon beam coagulator electrode tip mimicking a metallic foreign body.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Our purpose is to describe the appearance of an argon beam coagulator electrode tip that may become fractured and detached during surgery.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Knowledge of the potential for fracture and detachment and recognition of the characteristic radiographic appearance of the argon beam coagulator electrode tip allows radiographic identification of this metallic foreign body.
authors.affiliation: Department of Diagnostic Radiology, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, 1515 Holcombe Blvd., Box 57, Houston, TX 77030, USA.
authors.forename: Gregory W
authors.initials: GW
authors.lastname: Gladish
authors.forename: Joel S
authors.initials: JS
authors.lastname: Dunnington
authors.forename: Marvin H
authors.initials: MH
authors.lastname: Chasen
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D004564:Electrocoagulation / Q000295:instrumentation*; D004566:Electrodes; D005260:Female; D005547:Foreign Bodies / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed