TY - JOUR T1 - Oesophageal "cross"--a sinister foreign body. JF - Journal of Accident & Emergency Medicine JO - Arch Emerg Med SP - 54 LP - 55 DO - 10.1136/emj.14.1.54 VL - 14 IS - 1 AU - J E Losanoff AU - K T Kjossev AU - H E Losanoff Y1 - 1997/01/01 UR - http://emj.bmj.com/content/14/1/54.abstract N2 - A young jail inmate purposely ingested a foreign body formed of sewing needles, specially designed to be arrested in the gut and cause perforation. Immediate surgical removal of such ingested foreign objects is recommended because the chances of distal passage are nil. ER -