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Emergency casebook
Foreign body in the upper gastrointestinal tract: report of an unusual case of injury
  1. X Balkamou1,
  2. P G Ntagiopoulos2,
  3. D-A D Moutzouris3,
  4. E Pepas4
  1. 1Department of Anesthesiology, Elpis General Hospital, Athens, Greece
  2. 2Department of Surgery, ‘Elpis’ General Hospital of Athens, Greece
  3. 3Department of Internal Medicine, Asklipeion General Hospital, Athens
  4. 4Department of Surgery, Elpis General Hospital
  1. Correspondence to:
 P G Ntagiopoulos
 56-60 Koniari str, 115 21 Athens, Greece; ntagiopoulos{at}hotmail.com

https://doi.org/10.1136/emj.2006.036665

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