Valiant Fruit Pit (2)

?Cherry Pit Ingestion Leading to Diagnosis of Colon Carcinoma,? Reinhard P. Mittermair, Hannes Gruber and Reinhold Kafka-Ritsch, American Journal of Surgery, vol. 188, no. 2 , August 2004, p. 185 (http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.amjsurg.2004.03.004).
(Thanks to Kristine Danowski for bringing this to our attention.)
The authors report on a surprising case, and then conclude that:

Swallowed fruit pits are no doubt much more common than realized. Rarely, they cause symptoms, and more rarely, intestinal obstruction. Patient education might reduce the instances of ingested pits, but on the other hand, ingestion may lead to an earlier diagnosis of a carcinoma.

(That’s an excerpt from the article “AIRhead Medical Review,” published in AIR 11:1.)