Accidental Entry of Fish into Throat While Bathing in a Pond

While fish bones are common foreign bodies in the throat, a whole live fish in the pharynx is very rare. We report a case where a whole fish accidentally entered the throat of a 52-year-old male, where it became lodged causing throat pain and dysphagia. The fish was removed as an emergency procedure...

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Autores principales: Parida, Pradipta Kumar, Surianarayanan, Gopalakrishnan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2013
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3859168/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24371443
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/604687
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description While fish bones are common foreign bodies in the throat, a whole live fish in the pharynx is very rare. We report a case where a whole fish accidentally entered the throat of a 52-year-old male, where it became lodged causing throat pain and dysphagia. The fish was removed as an emergency procedure.
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spelling pubmed-38591682013-12-26 Accidental Entry of Fish into Throat While Bathing in a Pond Parida, Pradipta Kumar Surianarayanan, Gopalakrishnan Case Rep Med Case Report While fish bones are common foreign bodies in the throat, a whole live fish in the pharynx is very rare. We report a case where a whole fish accidentally entered the throat of a 52-year-old male, where it became lodged causing throat pain and dysphagia. The fish was removed as an emergency procedure. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2013 2013-11-25 /pmc/articles/PMC3859168/ /pubmed/24371443 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/604687 Text en Copyright © 2013 P. K. Parida and G. Surianarayanan. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under 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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