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Doctors Retrieved Nails From Patient's Bowels

October 5, 2026

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(MedPage Today) -- While most cases of foreign body retrieval involve the upper gastrointestinal tract (GI), a young woman needed a colonoscopy after she intentionally swallowed multiple nails, researchers reported. For a woman in her 30s who...

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