Sunday, July 17, 2011

Interesting Fact 40: Injestion

11: Number of coins, totaling $1.03, retrieved from the gastrointestinal tracts of nine children at Massachusetts General Hospital over the course of a three-year observational study.  American children and young adults ingest more than 100,000 foreign objects every year.  About 90 percent pass through the body without problems; the rest must be removed by endoscopy or surgery.

Discover - July/August 2011

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