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Child Swallows SpongeBob SquarePants: X-Ray Finds Toy In His Esophagus
Kathleen Lees
First Posted: Jan 28, 2015 11:53 AM EST
Many of us are passionate about our favorite cartoon characters, but we're not likely to try and eat them.
Dr. Ghofran Ageely, a radiology resident at King Abdulaziz University Hospital in Jeddah discovered that a 16-month-old boy had swallowed a SpongeBob SquarePants toy that was hiding inside his esophagus.
"'SpongeBob,' I screamed!!! I was amazed by the visible details. You can see his freckles, shoes and fingers...AMAZING," Ageely said, via LiveScience.
He has shared X-ray images of the SpongeBog SquarePants inside the toddler's esophagus, which originally appeared to be a hairpin on a side-view X-ray image. Yet a front-view image showed the unmistakeable form of the Nickelodeon star.
"I thought it is just a pin," Ageely said, via ABC News. "But when I opened the frontal view I was shocked to see SpongeBob looking at me with a big smile. Its angle and rotation are just perfect."
The pendant has been removed and the boy was sent home.
"We see a lot of amazing X-rays on our site, but this one is particularly amazing," said Dr. Andrew Dixon, managing editor of Radiopaedia and a radiologist at The Alfred Hospital in Melbourne, Australia, who shared the X-ray images on Radiopaedia.org, a Wikipedia-like site for radiologists and medical students to share and discuss medical cases.
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First Posted: Jan 28, 2015 11:53 AM EST
Many of us are passionate about our favorite cartoon characters, but we're not likely to try and eat them.
Dr. Ghofran Ageely, a radiology resident at King Abdulaziz University Hospital in Jeddah discovered that a 16-month-old boy had swallowed a SpongeBob SquarePants toy that was hiding inside his esophagus.
"'SpongeBob,' I screamed!!! I was amazed by the visible details. You can see his freckles, shoes and fingers...AMAZING," Ageely said, via LiveScience.
He has shared X-ray images of the SpongeBog SquarePants inside the toddler's esophagus, which originally appeared to be a hairpin on a side-view X-ray image. Yet a front-view image showed the unmistakeable form of the Nickelodeon star.
"I thought it is just a pin," Ageely said, via ABC News. "But when I opened the frontal view I was shocked to see SpongeBob looking at me with a big smile. Its angle and rotation are just perfect."
The pendant has been removed and the boy was sent home.
"We see a lot of amazing X-rays on our site, but this one is particularly amazing," said Dr. Andrew Dixon, managing editor of Radiopaedia and a radiologist at The Alfred Hospital in Melbourne, Australia, who shared the X-ray images on Radiopaedia.org, a Wikipedia-like site for radiologists and medical students to share and discuss medical cases.
For more great nature science stories and general news, please visit our sister site, Headlines and Global News (HNGN).
See Now: NASA's Juno Spacecraft's Rendezvous With Jupiter's Mammoth Cyclone