Endoscopic Management of Foreign Bodies in the Gastrointestinal Tract: A Review of the Literature

<table class="table-group" id="tab2"><tr><td><table class="table"><tr><td class="thead-hr" colspan="2"><hr/></td></tr><tr class="thead"><td class="align_left">Foreign body</td><td class="align_center">Complication</td></tr><tr><td class="thead-hr" colspan="2"><hr/></td></tr><tr><td class="align_left">Button battery</td><td class="align_center">Chemical/electrical damage, stricture formation, migration through intestinal wall</td></tr><tr><td class="align_left">Fish bone</td><td class="align_center">Perforation, peritonitis, abscess formation, sepsis, hematoma</td></tr><tr><td class="align_left">Crack-cocaine pipes</td><td class="align_center">Toxic effects of illicit drug</td></tr><tr><td class="align_left">Bread bag clips</td><td class="align_center">Attachment to bowel wall → inflammation, ulceration, perforation, obstruction</td></tr><tr><td class="align_left">Round objects (air gun pellets, screws, other metallic objects)</td><td class="align_center">Acute appendicitis</td></tr><tr class="table-tr"><td colspan="2"><hr class="tbody-hr"/></td></tr></table></td></tr></table>

Common complications associated with foreign body impaction.

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Table 2: Endoscopic Management of Foreign Bodies in the Gastrointestinal Tract: A Review of the Literature 