On her death one pound and nine ounces of pins were found in her stomach and duodenum.
There are individuals known as "human pin-cushions," who publicly introduce pins and needles into their bodies for gain's sake.
The wanderings of pins and needles in the body are quite well known.
Schenck records the finding of a swallowed pin in the liver.

Haller mentions one that made its way to the hand.

Silvy speaks of a case in which a quantity of swallowed pins escaped through the muscles, the bladder, and vagina; there is another record in which the pins escaped many years afterward from the thigh.

The Philosophical Transactions contain a record of the escape of a pin from the skin of the arm after it had entered by the mouth.

Gooch, Ruysch, Purmann, and Hoffman speak of needle-wanderings.