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. 2025 Apr 8:50:94.
doi: 10.11604/pamj.2025.50.94.47381. eCollection 2025.

Earring ingestion in a twelve-month-old infant

Leila Debono  1   2 , Lamia Karboubi  1   2
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Earring ingestion in a twelve-month-old infant

Leila Debono et al. Pan Afr Med J. .
No abstract available

Keywords: Ingestion; earring; foreign body; infant.

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A) chest X-ray showing the foreign body in the upper third of the esophagus; B) endoscopic image showing the extraction of the earring covered in food debris by forceps; C) image of the extracted earring
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