Open AccessAccidental ingestion of hairpin in an adolescent girl
Author(s) -
Ahmed Almarhabi
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
journal of family and community medicine/maǧalaẗ ṭib al-usraẗ wa al-muǧtamaʼ
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2229-340X
pISSN - 1319-1683
DOI - 10.4103/jfcm.jfcm_77_18
Subject(s) - medicine , ingestion , foreign body ingestion , girl , colonoscopy , foreign body , accidental , swallowing , poison control , medical emergency , surgery , colorectal cancer , psychology , developmental psychology , physics , cancer , acoustics
Ingestion of headscarf pin is a particular type of foreign body ingestion sometimes experienced by adolescent girls and even older women while putting on their headscarf. We report on a 13-year-old girl who presented at the emergency unit at our hospital within 48 hr after accidentally swallowing a headscarf pin. The pin was successfully retrieved from the ascending colon through colonoscopy. Headscarf pin ingestion is a serious problem among women who wear headscarves for various reasons. However, the retrieval of such pins from the colon through colonoscopy has been infrequently reported.