Thyroid lobectomy for removal of a fish bone.
A 42-year-old female Jordanian patient presented with a history of sudden painful dysphagia following swallowing of a fish bone. Though soft tissue X-rays showed a foreign body in the neck, repeated oesophagoscopies failed to reveal it. Computed axial tomography was done and showed a fish bone embedded in the left thyroid lobe. Left thyroid lobectomy was carried out and the fish bone was seen within the lobe surrounded by an area of acute inflammation.
al Muhanna
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ENT Department Sabah Hospital, Kuwait.
Abu Chra
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Dashti
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Behbehani
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al-Naqeeb
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D000328:Adult; D000818:Animals; D001842:Bone and Bones; D005260:Female; D005399:Fishes; D005547:Foreign Bodies / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D013961:Thyroid Gland / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed