Oesophageal foreign bodies caused by meat consumed during the Sacrifice Feast: our single-centre experience
Cobanoglu, U.; Mergan, D.; Kemik, O.; Sayir, F.
JPMA. Journal of the Pakistan Medical Association 68(8): 1193-1198
2018
ISSN/ISBN: 0030-9982 PMID: 30108385 Document Number: 695388
To compare the frequency of oesophageal foreign bodies during the month of Eid-ul-Adha with other months. This retrospective study was conducted at YüzüncüYil University Hospital, Van, Turkey, during 2012-16, and comprised individuals who were treated for bone and/or meat fragments lodged in the oesophagus. The number of hospital admissions with diagnosis of oesophageal foreign bodies during Eid-ul-Adha episodes were extricated and compares with similar date for the other months.Minitab 13 was used for statistical computations. Among the 289 cases in the study, a pronounced increase in the number of patients was observed during Eid-ul-Adha, with the most frequent symptoms in 263(91%) patients being dysphagia and odynophagia. The number of patients with oesophageal foreign bodies diagnosed during Eid-ul-Adha were significantly higher than the other months (p<0.05). An increase in cases of oesophageal foreign bodies was found during Eid-ul-Adha.