Ingested Metallic Spool: A Rare Cause of Acquired Tracheoesophageal Fistula

Foreign body (FB) ingestion is a common problem in children. Prolonged impaction of FB in esophagus may result in tracheoesophageal fistula (TEF). A 6-year-old girl presented with progressive dysphagia and recurrent chest infections. No history of FB ingestion was given by parents. Further investiga...

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Autores principales: Hashim, Imran, Talat, Nabila
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: EL-MED-Pub 2017
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5253614/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28164003
http://dx.doi.org/10.21699/ajcr.v8i1.531
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description Foreign body (FB) ingestion is a common problem in children. Prolonged impaction of FB in esophagus may result in tracheoesophageal fistula (TEF). A 6-year-old girl presented with progressive dysphagia and recurrent chest infections. No history of FB ingestion was given by parents. Further investigations revealed FB (spool) in cervical esophagus. Patient was successfully managed by surgery through trans-cervical approach.
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spelling pubmed-52536142017-02-03 Ingested Metallic Spool: A Rare Cause of Acquired Tracheoesophageal Fistula Hashim, Imran Talat, Nabila APSP J Case Rep Case Report Foreign body (FB) ingestion is a common problem in children. Prolonged impaction of FB in esophagus may result in tracheoesophageal fistula (TEF). A 6-year-old girl presented with progressive dysphagia and recurrent chest infections. No history of FB ingestion was given by parents. Further investigations revealed FB (spool) in cervical esophagus. Patient was successfully managed by surgery through trans-cervical approach. EL-MED-Pub 2017-01-05 /pmc/articles/PMC5253614/ /pubmed/28164003 http://dx.doi.org/10.21699/ajcr.v8i1.531 Text en Copyright © 2017 AJCR 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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title_full Ingested Metallic Spool: A Rare Cause of Acquired Tracheoesophageal Fistula
title_fullStr Ingested Metallic Spool: A Rare Cause of Acquired Tracheoesophageal Fistula
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title_short Ingested Metallic Spool: A Rare Cause of Acquired Tracheoesophageal Fistula
title_sort ingested metallic spool: a rare cause of acquired tracheoesophageal fistula
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5253614/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28164003
http://dx.doi.org/10.21699/ajcr.v8i1.531
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