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Foreign body: ingested batteries
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06 Mar 2014
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Ingested foreign bodies in children
Ingested foreign bodies in children are common as the world is a curious place to young children, who will put anything and everything into their mouth and will often inadvertently swallow.
The usual practice is for an x-ray of the chest and abdomen to identify a foreign body.
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MRI in patients with pacemaker systems
MRI in patients with cardiac implantable electronic devices (CIED) has increasingly become a requirement in radiological departments 1-8. Especially in the setting of patients with MR conditional pacemaker systems, where all the manufacturer's instructions are followed and a standardized institu...
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Esophageal foreign bodies
Esophageal foreign bodies are frequently encountered in clinical practice, representing the most common site for ingested foreign bodies or food impaction within the gastrointestinal tract.
This article discusses esophageal foreign bodies; a general view of the theme is available in the main a...
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Ingested foreign bodies in adults
Ingested foreign bodies in adults, in contrast to in children, is often accidental. It usually occurs accidentally in association with food consumption and is most common in adults with underlying gastrointestinal tract pathology. Cases of intentional foreign body ingestion in adults are seen mo...
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Charles Thurstan Holland
Charles Thurstan Holland (1863-1941) was a pioneering radiologist who played a pivotal role in establishing radiology as a specialty in its own right.
Early life
Charles Thurstan Holland was born in Bridgwater, Somerset on 7 March 1863. He studied medicine at University College Hospital in...
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Abdominal opacities
An opacity projecting over the abdomen has a broad differential. Possibilities to consider include:
foreign bodies
ingested, e.g. coins, batteries, bones, etc
artifacts, e.g. object attached to the cloth of the patient like a safety pin or button
iatrogenic, e.g. hemostatic clips, gastric ba...
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Foreign body ingestion series (pediatric)
The suspected foreign body ingestion series is a set of radiographs utilized to detect and identify foreign bodies in the gastrointestinal tract. It involves an AP and lateral radiograph of the neck, chest, and abdomen ensuring adequate coverage of the entire gastrointestinal tract 1.
Patient p...
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Picture archiving and communication system
Picture archiving and communication system (PACS) is a modality of imaging technology which helps in image transmission from the site of image acquisition to multiple physically-disparate locations. This technology not only is economical (film-less department), but also convenient to access mult...
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Cardiac conduction devices
Implantable cardiac conduction devices (also known as cardiac implantable electronic devices or CIEDs) are a very common medical device of the thorax, with over one million implanted in the United States of America alone.
There are two major types of cardiac conduction devices: pacemakers and a...
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Acquired tracheo-esophageal fistula
An acquired tracheo-esophageal fistula refers to a pathological communication between the trachea and esophagus due to a secondary cause.
Pathology
Acquired causes of tracheo-esophageal fistulae can be divided into those that are related to malignancy (common) and those from other causes (unco...
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Endolymph
Endolymph is one of the two types of cochlear fluids, the other being perilymph. It is located in the scala media of the cochlea.
It is secreted by the stria vascularis (also colloquially called the 'battery of the cochlea') on the outer wall of the scala media. It has a high level of potassium...
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Foreign body
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28 Jan 2021
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COVID-19 pneumonia and biosensor device
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14 Oct 2021
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Swallowed foreign body
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23 May 2020
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Stacked coins
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25 Feb 2023
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Nasal foreign body
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22 Mar 2017
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Ingested coin
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10 Apr 2022
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Nasal foreign body
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28 Apr 2013
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Coin inside cast
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06 Jan 2022
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