著者

田辺 正博 上原 範子

出版者

The Society of Practical Otolaryngology

雑誌

耳鼻咽喉科臨床 (ISSN:00326313)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.73, no.4, pp.673-677, 1980

被引用文献数

2 1

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Evidence of a foreign body in the esophagus is not rare. When characteristics of the foreign body are unknown and are non-contrasted with x-ray, the diagnosis is often difficult.<br>We report a case of a foreign body which was overlooked for more than two months.<br>A 47-year-old woman experienced severe pain in her throat when she swallowed a piece of sponge cake. A foreign body lodged in the throat was ruled out by two otolaryngologists.<br>Five weeks later, she developed retrosternal pain and epigastralgia and an esophagogram was done.<br>She was sent to our clinic as there was an abnormal shadow detected on the esophagogram.<br>Flexible fibro-optic esophagoscopy revealed a foreign body lodged in the esophagus.<br>Under general anesthesia, a piece of quadrilateral plastic film with sharp corners was removed using a rigid esophagoscope.<br>The patient had a good postoperative course and esophagogram done five months after removal of the foreign body showed no stenosis of the esophagus due to scar formation.