Mobile phone ingestion requiring endoscopic retrieval

Endoscopic Retrieval of an Ingested Mobile Phone From the Stomach of a Prisoner: When Gastroenterologists Answer the Call

“…Given the patient’s circumstances being a prisoner making the arrangement for an elective endoscopy a harder task than usual, the decision was made to carry out upper GI endoscopy without delay and the mobile phone was successfully retrieved without complications. A mobile phone is a complex foreign body as it contains a battery inside it which can cause multiple complications like gastric irritation, ulceration, or perforation [ 6 ]. Our patient wrapped it in multiple plastic layers which prevented those possible complications.…”