Coin ingestion: Does every child need a
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Dee Hodge III; Frederick Tecklenburg; Gary Fleisher
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Article
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1985
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Elsevier Science
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English
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We studied 80 children who presented to the emergency department (ED) with a complaint of coin ingestion to determine whether radiographs are necessary in all situations and to determine which symptoms or signs are predictive of esophageal coins. Radiographs were considered positive if the coin was