Needle Ingestion – Silent Perforation & Delayed Presentation Intervened by two Pregnancies & Many Years

Ingestion of foreign bodies by healthy adults is rare. Most of these pass spontaneously through GI route. Management of ingested foreign body depends on various foreign body, time and patient related factors. Asymptomatic GI perforation with long term retention of ingested sharp foreign bodies which become symptomatic many years later is rare. Here we report similar case of a young female. Interestingly our patient also had two uneventful pregnancies with normal vaginal deliveries in between accidental ingestion of a needle and becoming symptomatic. Case report is followed by brief review of literature.