The travelling fish bone: Migrated pharyngeal foreign body to the prevertebral muscle

Foreign bodies that are impacted in the upper aerodigestive tract are often encountered in a day to day ENT practice. Most of them could usually be removed in a clinic setting but some may require comprehensive imaging and surgery to extricate them. This paper depicts a patient’s self-induced trau...

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Main Authors: Thomas, Reuben Abraham, Chiun, Kian Chai, Tang, Ing Ping
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Language:English
Published: Egyptian Society of Ear Nose Throat and Allied Sciences 2017
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ejenta.2016.10.003
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spelling my.unimas.ir.143182023-03-29T06:35:57Z http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/14318/ The travelling fish bone: Migrated pharyngeal foreign body to the prevertebral muscle Thomas, Reuben Abraham Chiun, Kian Chai Tang, Ing Ping RM Therapeutics. Pharmacology Foreign bodies that are impacted in the upper aerodigestive tract are often encountered in a day to day ENT practice. Most of them could usually be removed in a clinic setting but some may require comprehensive imaging and surgery to extricate them. This paper depicts a patient’s self-induced traumatic attempt to remove a huge serrated fish bone that was lodged at the hypopharynx which made its way to the prevertebral soft tissue space compelling an open surgical procedure with neck exploration for definite treatment. Egyptian Society of Ear Nose Throat and Allied Sciences 2017 Article PeerReviewed text en http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/14318/1/The%20travelling%20fish%20bone%20%28abstract%29.pdf Thomas, Reuben Abraham and Chiun, Kian Chai and Tang, Ing Ping (2017) The travelling fish bone: Migrated pharyngeal foreign body to the prevertebral muscle. Egyptian Journal of Ear, Nose, Throat and Allied SciencesOpen Access, 18 (1). pp. 87-89. ISSN 2090-0740 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ejenta.2016.10.003 doi : 10.1016/j.ejenta.2016.10.003
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Thomas, Reuben Abraham
Chiun, Kian Chai
Tang, Ing Ping
The travelling fish bone: Migrated pharyngeal foreign body to the prevertebral muscle
description Foreign bodies that are impacted in the upper aerodigestive tract are often encountered in a day to day ENT practice. Most of them could usually be removed in a clinic setting but some may require comprehensive imaging and surgery to extricate them. This paper depicts a patient’s self-induced traumatic attempt to remove a huge serrated fish bone that was lodged at the hypopharynx which made its way to the prevertebral soft tissue space compelling an open surgical procedure with neck exploration for definite treatment.
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author Thomas, Reuben Abraham
Chiun, Kian Chai
Tang, Ing Ping
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Chiun, Kian Chai
Tang, Ing Ping
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title The travelling fish bone: Migrated pharyngeal foreign body to the prevertebral muscle
title_short The travelling fish bone: Migrated pharyngeal foreign body to the prevertebral muscle
title_full The travelling fish bone: Migrated pharyngeal foreign body to the prevertebral muscle
title_fullStr The travelling fish bone: Migrated pharyngeal foreign body to the prevertebral muscle
title_full_unstemmed The travelling fish bone: Migrated pharyngeal foreign body to the prevertebral muscle
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publisher Egyptian Society of Ear Nose Throat and Allied Sciences
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