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Accidental ingestion of plastic from takeaway containers — food for thought

Athanasios Sioulas, Dimitrios Polymeros, Ioannis S Papanikolaou and Konstantinos Triantafyllou
Med J Aust 2011; 195 (10): . || doi: 10.5694/mja11.10918
Published online: 21 November 2011

To the Editor: We read with interest the case report by Guirgis and colleagues.1


  • Attikon University General Hospital, Athens, Greece.


Correspondence: ktriant@med.uoa.gr

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No relevant disclosures.

  • 1. Guirgis M, Nguyen R, Pokorny C. Accidental ingestion of plastic from takeaway containers — food for thought. Med J Aust 2011; 194: 245-246. <MJA full text>
  • 2. Swaminath A, Lucas AL, Capiak K, et al. A foreign body larger than the overtube diameter: a case of a large cow foot bone causing esophageal impaction. Gastroenterol Hepatol (N Y) 2010; 6: 793-795.

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