Rectal foreign bodies: hazards, diagnosis and management

ABSTRACT

Over the past two years, 25 patients managed in Hamad Medical Corporation in Qatar were reviewed for retained foreign bodies in the rectum. The foreign bodies that were retrieved and the age, sex and marital status of each patient were recorded. The complications that arose from either the insertion or removal of the foreign bodies [F.B.] were discussed as were the methods of treatment involved. The diagnostic importance of radiology as well as its forensic aspect were also emphasized. The frequency of this increasing problem as well as the best method of its management was also discussed