Foreign Bodies Ingestion in Children: Experience of 61 Cases in a Pediatric Gastroenterology Unit from Romania

Table 3

Types of foreign bodies encountered in the patient series.

Foreign body	Number of patients	%
Coins	16	26.23
Other metal objects	8	13.11
Bones	5	8.19
Batteries	4	6.55
Buttons	4	6.55
Large seeds	3	4.91
Alimentary boluses	3	4.91
Glass, marbles, toothpicks, magnets, and unidentified plastic objects (toy parts)	2 each	3.27 each
Needles, screws, nails, keys, hair pins, pencils, plastic lenses, and shattered glass	1 each	1.64 each