Foreign body ingestion is common and a frightening experience to the patients and their relatives. A great variety of objects that are capable of penetrating the wall of the gut are swallowed, usually accidentally, but sometimes intentionally by the mentally deranged. Our patient was a 27 year old man admitted to emergency. After laparatomy we removed 10 sharp metal objects from GI. This is a rare presentation and type of foreign body ingestion that we reviewed.

Keywords: Massive foreign bodies ingestion, appendicitis, laparatomy

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