Medicolegal X-Ray and CT of standard size mobile phone cards (SIM card).

• Main Authors: Schweitzer, Wolf, Winklhofer, Sebastian, Thali, Michael J., Yaakup, Nur Adura, Abdul Rashid, Saiful Nizam
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier 2013
• Online Access: http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/29818/1/Medicolegal%20X.pdf; http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/29818/; http://www.jofri.net/article/S2212-4780(13)00065-8/abstract
• Institution: Universiti Putra Malaysia

Background. Foreign body ingestion typically affects children or adults with mental conditions. SIM (subscriber identity module) card ingestion is extremely rare. As their particularly X-Ray dense metal parts are sized about 9 × 12 mm × 50--80 μ, they can be difficult to capture on plain radiograp...