title: An unusual digestive foreign body.
abstract: Foreign digestive bodies present unusual circumstances because they are associated with various degrees of local trauma and may lead to direct perforation or delayed local injury. Patients with foreign bodies should be evaluated upon admission for signs of impaction and perforation. While all objects impacted in the esophagus require urgent treatment, rectal foreign bodies are usually removable through the anus. The current case illustrates successful endoscopic retrieval of a proximally located foreign body in a particular legal situation where physicians had to work closely with police officers and court members.
authors.affiliation: Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology, Hôpital Cantonal Universitaire de Genève, Geneva, Switzerland.
authors.forename: Jean Louis
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Frossard
authors.forename: Raymond
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: de Peyer