It is not generally recognized that foreign bodies may be lodged in the esophagus after having passed into the stomach. The possibility of this occurrence emphasizes the importance of following the course of all gastric foreign bodies until their removal or expulsion is accomplished. Repeated observations and examinations, physical, roentgenographic and endoscopic, are indicated. In the following two cases foreign bodies were ingested into the stomach and were subsequently impacted in the esophagus during vomiting. REPORT OF CASES Case 1. —A. G., aged 4, admitted, June 6, 1927, had had moderate obstruction to the swallowing of solids of twenty-four hours' duration. The child had swallowed a coin, a five cent piece, four days prior to admission. Roentgen-ray examination revealed the coin in the stomach. The child was symptom free for three days until a vomiting spell occurred. Immediately after the vomiting spell, obstruction to the swallowing of