A 4-year-old girl with pituitary dysplasia for 2 years presented to our hospital after swallowing a coin 3 hours earlier. An abdominal X-ray revealed the coin in her stomach, along with an unexpected string of beaded, high-density images in the right upper abdomen ([Fig. 1]). Her parents disclosed that the girl had played with magnetic beads a month prior and might have ingested them then, but she had no symptoms of abdominal pain, vomiting, or fever. Under intravenous anesthesia, the girl underwent gastroscopy.
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