Foreign bodies in a pediatric emergency department in South Africa.

Objectives: Foreign body-related pediatric trauma has a high incidence, but studies with large data sets are rare and typically stem from Western settings. The aim of this study was to identify characteristics of foreign body-related trauma in children treated at our trauma unit in South Africa.

Methods: In this retrospective study, we analyzed all foreign body-related trauma admissions from 1991 to 2009.