Foreign body in the pharynx incidentally found
Doumbia-Singare, K.; Timbo, S.; Keita, M.; Togola-Konipo, F.; Ag, M.A.
Le Mali Medical 24(3): 66-67
2009
ISSN/ISBN: 1993-0836 PMID: 20093215 Document Number: 636471
Diagnosis and therapeutic of foreign bodies of the oropharynx are not difficult in general. The diagnosis is usually obvious for the adult. We report a case of foreign body of the oropharynx observed in a patient, psychologically stable, which occurred two months after a traumatism. The patient was not aware of the existence of the foreign body. It was extracted two months after the accident by endo-oral track under general anaesthesia. The nature of the foreign body, the fortuity of its discovery and its presence for a long time reported here are of interest.