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Will an mri show a foreign body of any material in the neck/esophagus? such as non-opaque items (wood, plastic, etc) if they are tiny?
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Maybe, but it is: more likely that a tiny nonmetallic, nonferromagnetic foreign body could be invisible on MRI.
Answered 7/30/2016
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