In a unique operation, Saudi doctors extracted a coin that had been stuck in the throat of an 11-year-old Saudi girl for four years, after they discovered a foreign body in the upper part of the esophagus during routine examinations, according to the Saudi newspaper, Sabq.

The newspaper explains that the girl swallowed the coin by mistake, did not tell her parents, and did not show any symptoms at all, or shortness of breath, despite her visits to the hospital several times during the past two years, as she suffers from sickle cell disease.

In a medical discussion about medical errors globally, Saudi doctors addressed this story, in which they indicated that the metal piece was extracted from the girl’s body 4 years after she swallowed it, according to the medical journal “le Ear, Nose & Throat Journal.”

According to the speakers, the metal object appeared in the chest x-ray that was conducted for the girl four years ago during a routine examination, and at that time the treating doctor believed that it might be a piece of a necklace or buttons on her clothes, but after a new chest x-ray was conducted recently, the presence of the same body was noticed, which is what Detecting an error, and the need for rapid medical intervention.

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And the girl moved to the operating room after conducting all the medical examinations, and the surgeons decided to make an incision in the neck area to extract the coin in a delicate operation. The girl was able to leave the hospital after four days, and was followed up for several weeks until it was confirmed that everything was back to normal, and her body and weight improved.