Migration of foreign body from postcricoid region to the subcutaneous tissue of the neck

Migration of a foreign body from the hypopharynx to the subcutaneous tissue of the neck is a rare event. We report a case of a 48-year-old male who accidentally swallowed a fish bone which was not identified intraoperatively. The patient then presented with migration of the bone to the soft tissue o...

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Autores principales: Shaariyah, Mohd Mokhtar, Salina, Husain, Dipak, Banarsidas, Majid, Md Nasir Abd
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2010
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2994166/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20864791
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0256-4947.70565
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author Shaariyah, Mohd Mokhtar
Salina, Husain
Dipak, Banarsidas
Majid, Md Nasir Abd
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description Migration of a foreign body from the hypopharynx to the subcutaneous tissue of the neck is a rare event. We report a case of a 48-year-old male who accidentally swallowed a fish bone which was not identified intraoperatively. The patient then presented with migration of the bone to the soft tissue of the neck. We conclude that careful assessment of the patient with a foreign body in the throat is crucial to avoid fatal complications.
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spelling pubmed-29941662010-12-14 Migration of foreign body from postcricoid region to the subcutaneous tissue of the neck Shaariyah, Mohd Mokhtar Salina, Husain Dipak, Banarsidas Majid, Md Nasir Abd Ann Saudi Med Case Report Migration of a foreign body from the hypopharynx to the subcutaneous tissue of the neck is a rare event. We report a case of a 48-year-old male who accidentally swallowed a fish bone which was not identified intraoperatively. The patient then presented with migration of the bone to the soft tissue of the neck. We conclude that careful assessment of the patient with a foreign body in the throat is crucial to avoid fatal complications. Medknow Publications 2010 /pmc/articles/PMC2994166/ /pubmed/20864791 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0256-4947.70565 Text en © Annals of Saudi Medicine http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Shaariyah, Mohd Mokhtar
Salina, Husain
Dipak, Banarsidas
Majid, Md Nasir Abd
Migration of foreign body from postcricoid region to the subcutaneous tissue of the neck
title Migration of foreign body from postcricoid region to the subcutaneous tissue of the neck
title_full Migration of foreign body from postcricoid region to the subcutaneous tissue of the neck
title_fullStr Migration of foreign body from postcricoid region to the subcutaneous tissue of the neck
title_full_unstemmed Migration of foreign body from postcricoid region to the subcutaneous tissue of the neck
title_short Migration of foreign body from postcricoid region to the subcutaneous tissue of the neck
title_sort migration of foreign body from postcricoid region to the subcutaneous tissue of the neck
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2994166/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20864791
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0256-4947.70565
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