The case of the disappearing fish bone.
This article reports the 9-month follow-up CT scan of a patient with a pharyngeal fish bone that had migrated into the soft tissues of the neck. The patient had been managed conservatively and remains well, the fish bone having disappeared completely and presumed to have been resorbed.
Canbay
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Department of ENT, Cumhuriyet University, Sivas, Turkey.
Prinsley
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D005547:Foreign Bodies / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000503:physiopathology*; D005548:Foreign-Body Migration; D006801:Humans; D010614:Pharynx / Q000503:physiopathology*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed