Talk:Endoscopic foreign body retrieval

Endoscopic foreign body retrieval was one of the Natural sciences good articles, but it has been removed from the list. There are suggestions below for improving the article to meet the good article criteria. Once these issues have been addressed, the article can be renominated. Editors may also seek a reassessment of the decision if they believe there was a mistake.

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Date	Process	Result
August 24, 2006	Good article nominee	Listed
June 9, 2009	Good article reassessment	Delisted

A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on June 8, 2006.

The text of the entry was: Did you know ...that spoons, eyeglasses, and toothbrushes have been removed from stomachs using endoscopic foreign body retrieval techniques with specialized cameras?

Current status: Delisted good article

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Jargon survey

esophageal foreign body impaction
at the end of the scope or at the end of orogastric tubes
- (In this case, you could check whether there is an appropriate article to link to, or create a stub.)
Consider rewording this. Foreign bodies are not usually left in there anyway, are they?
- Foreign bodies should not remain in the esophagus for greater than 24 hours because of a high risk of complication.
Circeus 18:06, 6 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Reworded and explained. Many thanks for the survey -- Samir धर्म 22:36, 15 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Nice pictures

The pictures are awesome. The article could use a little cosmetic care and buffing but looks pretty good overall. Do you think it's worth including something on removal of rectal foreign bodies? MastCell 05:05, 24 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Was on my to-do list for some time; there's far less evidence for colonoscopic retrieval though -- Samir धर्म 11:10, 24 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Not GA

I think this article is a little limited in scope to be GA

no section on the history of this technique
no section on how commonly it is performed
images of the equipment would be nice
complications of this technique
discuss what should be done before this is attempted and what can be tried if this does not work.

--Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 00:54, 21 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]