Impacted foreign body | Figure 1

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Cincinnati Children's Radiology

Upper GI examination in an adolescent who swallowed the cap of a water bottle shows the cap (arrow) lodged in the distal esophagus. Ingested water bottle caps can get lodged in the esophagus due to their relatively large size and corrugated edges.

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