accidental ingestion

The case of a 13-year old boy whose skull was pierced by a 6-inch screw in a treehouse-building incident just hit the news.

For pediatricians, it is hard to imagine a week going by without a child accidentally or intentionally ingesting some random substance.

Location.  Location.  Location.  Everything in medicine comes down to real estate.  The closer to a vital structure in the body, the more precarious the consequence— especially when considering foreign objects where nature did