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A case of unusual foreign body ingestion in a toddler.

Joydeep Das, Jyoti Kiran, Suman Mondal, Balram Gupta

The ingestion of foreign body is one of the important childhood emergency requiring urgent care depending on type and site of impaction. Many a times ingestion remains unrecognized and asymptomatic. We report a similar case of metallic foreign body which passed through anus asymptomatic, in spite of expert surgeon's advice of endoscopic removal.