PEDIATRICS Vol. 51 No. 2 February 1973, pp. 313
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Removal of Coins From the Esophagus: Nothing New Under the Sun

Jack H. T. Chang M.D.1 and John D. Burrington M.D.1

1 Department of Surgery, The Children's Hospital, 1056 East 19th Avenue, Denver, Colorado 80218

In the recent literature there appears to be a revival of interest in the use of Foley catheters in removing foreign objects from both orifices of the alimentary canal.1-3

During the peak of the Byzantine period, foreign bodies were extracted from the esophagus by having the patient swallow a small, dry sponge on a string, allowing it to expand in the stomach and then withdrawing the sponge. Paulus Aegineta (seventh century) wrote in Book Six of his Epitome of Medicine:


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