Vol.100 No.12 contentsPRACTICA OTO-RHINO-LARYNGOLOGICA
Vol. 100 No. 12 December 2007
A Case Report of Extrapharyngeal Foreign Body
Sei-ichi Nakano, Hitomi Kawata, Takanori Sato,
Shin-ichi Nakagawa and Noriaki Takeda
(University of Tokushima)
Katsushi Miyazaki
(Kochi Red Cross Hospital)
We report a sixty-four-year-old woman with an extrapharyngeal foreign body due to swallowing a fish bone. The patient complained of a sore throat after she swallowed fried cutlass fish. However, there was no foreign body detected under pharyngolaryngoscopy or on the cervical X-ray film. Although the sore throat disappeared, cervical CT was carried out, because fish bone as a foreign body was strongly suspected based on the case history. Accordingly, it was demonstrated that the fish bone had extruded from the pharyngeal lumen and penetrated the thyroid. The extrapharyngeal foreign body was successfully removed by lateral neck incision under general anesthesia.
Key words : extrapharyngeal foreign body, fish bone, lateral neck incision