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Indigestible duck

MJA 2000; 173: 658

X-ray image

Plain x-ray of a shooter who enjoyed eating wild duck, showing lead pellets in the right iliac fossa. This was an incidental finding unrelated to the patient's presenting complaint.

 

John Roche, FRACGP
Moss Vale, NSW

Warwick B Lee, FRACR
Bowral, NSW

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