title: Ingested foreign body in the common bile duct.
abstract: We report a case of a 5-year-old boy who accidentally ingested a metal pin which was found inside the common bile duct on surgical exploration of duodenum and was removed through the ampulla of Vater. This is the first instance that an ingested metal pin in the common bile duct has been reported in the world literature.
authors.affiliation: University Paediatric Surgical Unit, Lady Ridgeway Hospital for Children, Colombo, Sri Lanka.
authors.forename: Ranjan
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Dias
authors.forename: Parackrama
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Dharmaratne