"I've got a UFO stuck in my throat!"--an interesting case of foreign body impaction in the oesophagus.
This is a case report of an elderly lady with odynophagia because she accidentally swallowed a tablet which was still wrapped in its blister pack. A discussion of foreign body ingestion, particularly in the elderly, is included. To the authors' knowledge, this is the first paper that includes a lateral cervical radiograph of an ingested blister pack.
Yip
L W
LW
Department of Otolaryngology, National University Hospital, Singapore.
Goh
F S
FS
Sim
R S
RS
D000368:Aged; D003679:Deglutition; D004349:Drug Packaging; D004945:Esophagoscopy; D004947:Esophagus / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D005260:Female; D005547:Foreign Bodies / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology* / Q000628:therapy; D006801:Humans; D007828:Laryngoscopy; D011859:Radiography; D013607:Tablets
D013607:Tablets