Never fish your brother: a case of plastic fish hook in the oesophagus
Mohd Shaiful Nizam Mamat Nasir, Wan Nur Anis Wan Draman, Sakinah Mohamad, Suzina Sheikh Ab Hamid, Irfan Mohamad
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Pediatr Med Rodz 2020, 16 (4), p. 422–425
DOI:
10.15557/PiMR.2020.0076
Abstract
Foreign body ingestion is a common, yet sometimes dangerous entity encountered in paediatric population. Depending on the type, size and location of a foreign body, it can present with variety of symptoms. The purpose of this report is to present an unexpected radiolucent oesophageal foreign body impaction in a 4-year-old boy missed by imaging, but successfully removed using rigid esophagoscopy without any complications.
Keywords
foreign body, esophagoscopy, children
