Migrant foreign body of the oesophagus: report of a case
Doumbia-Singare, K.; Timbo, S.K.; Soumaoro, S.; Keita, M.; Guindo, B.; Traore, L.; Mohamed, A.; Diallo, M.
Revue de laryngologie - otologie - rhinologie 134(3): 169-171
2013
ISSN/ISBN: 0035-1334 PMID: 24974413 Document Number: 665464
Evaluate the risk brought by the traditional practice in the evolution of the foreign bodies of the aesophagus. 30 years old male with migration from the oesophagus of a fish bone in soft tissue of the neck, which could have been favored by the traditional practice. The diagnosis of migration was suspected when a laterocervical mass appeared after a traditional processing. The rigid aesophagoscopy was negative and the scanner allowed to identify the foreign body in an extraluminal location. It was removed by cervicotomy. Postoperative was uneventful.