title: Unusual presentation of a retained foreign body in a child.
abstract: A 4-year-old boy, not known to have any medical illness, presented to several medical facilities reporting right upper quadrant and right flank pain, intermittent fever and chills for 3 months. A CT of the abdomen showed that a swallowed 'bobby pin' had pierced through the right kidney. This finding explained the boy's symptoms. The pin was removed by laparotomy without any subsequent complication. The patient had an uneventful postoperative recovery.
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery KAMC-JD, National Guard Health Affairs, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
authors.forename: Sultan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Almuallem
authors.affiliation: Department of surgery, Pediatric surgery section, KAMC-JD, KSAU-HS (COM-J) National Guard Health Affairs, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
authors.forename: Yasmin A M
authors.identifier: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3836-6580
authors.initials: YA
authors.lastname: Yousef
authors.affiliation: Department of surgery, Pediatric surgery section, KAMC-JD, National Guard Health Affairs, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
authors.forename: Abdulmalik
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Suhail
mesh_terms: D002675:Child, Preschool; D023341:Chills / Q000209:etiology; D005334:Fever / Q000209:etiology; D021501:Flank Pain / Q000209:etiology*; D005547:Foreign Bodies / Q000150:complications* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D005548:Foreign-Body Migration / Q000150:complications* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D007668:Kidney / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000293:injuries*; D007813:Laparotomy; D008297:Male; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D016896:Treatment Outcome