HighlightsForeign body ingestion is a relatively common and benign condition; some serious complications, however, can arise.Approximately 1% of all ingested FB will cause perforation requiring surgical treatment.Sharp FB, such as fish bones, chicken bones and needles, are more prone to migrate outside the gastrointestinal lumen if they are not removed early.The patient reported here is the first one in the literature to present a splenic rupture due to extra-luminal migration of an ingested fish bone through the splenic flexure of the colon.
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