Travel of a mis-swallowed long spoon to the jejunum

Thursday, October 29, 2009 - 05:00 in Health & Medicine

Foreign body ingestion is a frequent gastrointestinal emergency. However, long spoon swallowing is a rare event. Most swallowed spoons have been found in the stomach. Previously, there has been no reported case of a long spoon reaching the jejunum...

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