An Unusual Case of Foreign Body Lodged in the Laryngopharynx of Neonate with Esophageal Atresia

A blunt‑tipped red rubber catheter is used to confirm the presence of esophageal atresia in any newborn with drooling of saliva and frothing from the mouth. Failure to pass it beyond 10cms into the esophagus is considered diagnostic. We here in report an extremely rare case of broken tip of red rubb...

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Autores principales: Gupta, Rahul, Saxena, Manisha, Paul, Rozy, Gubbi, Sharan, Mathur, Praveen
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: EL-MED-Pub 2016
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4714620/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26793600
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author Gupta, Rahul
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description A blunt‑tipped red rubber catheter is used to confirm the presence of esophageal atresia in any newborn with drooling of saliva and frothing from the mouth. Failure to pass it beyond 10cms into the esophagus is considered diagnostic. We here in report an extremely rare case of broken tip of red rubber catheter lodged in the laryngopharynx of 2-day-old neonate of esophageal atresia with distal tracheoesophageal fistula. During endotracheal intubation foreign body was accidentally removed.
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spelling pubmed-47146202016-01-20 An Unusual Case of Foreign Body Lodged in the Laryngopharynx of Neonate with Esophageal Atresia Gupta, Rahul Saxena, Manisha Paul, Rozy Gubbi, Sharan Mathur, Praveen J Neonatal Surg Case Report A blunt‑tipped red rubber catheter is used to confirm the presence of esophageal atresia in any newborn with drooling of saliva and frothing from the mouth. Failure to pass it beyond 10cms into the esophagus is considered diagnostic. We here in report an extremely rare case of broken tip of red rubber catheter lodged in the laryngopharynx of 2-day-old neonate of esophageal atresia with distal tracheoesophageal fistula. During endotracheal intubation foreign body was accidentally removed. EL-MED-Pub 2016-01-01 /pmc/articles/PMC4714620/ /pubmed/26793600 Text en Copyright: © 2016 JNS http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ 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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Gupta, Rahul
Saxena, Manisha
Paul, Rozy
Gubbi, Sharan
Mathur, Praveen
An Unusual Case of Foreign Body Lodged in the Laryngopharynx of Neonate with Esophageal Atresia
title An Unusual Case of Foreign Body Lodged in the Laryngopharynx of Neonate with Esophageal Atresia
title_full An Unusual Case of Foreign Body Lodged in the Laryngopharynx of Neonate with Esophageal Atresia
title_fullStr An Unusual Case of Foreign Body Lodged in the Laryngopharynx of Neonate with Esophageal Atresia
title_full_unstemmed An Unusual Case of Foreign Body Lodged in the Laryngopharynx of Neonate with Esophageal Atresia
title_short An Unusual Case of Foreign Body Lodged in the Laryngopharynx of Neonate with Esophageal Atresia
title_sort unusual case of foreign body lodged in the laryngopharynx of neonate with esophageal atresia
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4714620/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26793600
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