Ingestion of foreign body

ABSTRACT

Ingestion of foreign body. The ingestion of foreign body can be accidental or voluntary. It is frequent at old person having a defective set of teeth or with mental deficiency, but also at the child. Mortality of ingestion of a foreign body is at present lower than 1%, thanks to the improvement of taking in charge, and especially techniques of origin endoscopiques. The urgency of taking in charge the foreign body of the digestive tract rests essentially on the location especially oesophagal and character vulnerant of the foreign body. The foreign body can present an immediate danger, delayed during the elimination or still during its extraction. In the case, a fast extraction is necessary. If endoscopice extractionis difficult, with important risk of perforation, an urgent surgical operation is then indicated. In the case of the foreign body gastric, the spontaneous evacuation is usual and appeal to the surgery is exceptional. Besides, once the stomach exceeds, the risk of performing of small bowel is important, especially with sharp, stiff and long foreign body