Teenager seen to ingest three non-food objects

Gastrointestinal
AXR of battery and lead pencil in the stomach
AXR AP shows two radiopaque cylindrical objects in the abdomen. There is a faintly radiopaque thin straight object coursing from the T12-L1 intervertebral disk space to the left and ending just above the superior most cylindrical object.

The diagnosis was gastrointestinal foreign body in the form of two AA batteries and a lead pencil.

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