title: The use of toluidine blue gargles to aid the detection of impacted pharyngeal fish bones.
abstract: Fishbone impaction is a common clinical problem. In most cases careful examination pinpoints the impacted bone which can then be removed. If no bone is detected a distinction must be drawn between mucosal abrasion mimicking fishbone impaction and a fine or deeply impaled fishbone eluding detection. We present a new method that may be helpful in the detection of pharyngeal fishbones.
authors.affiliation: Department of Otolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery, Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, UK.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Jassar
authors.forename: D P
authors.initials: DP
authors.lastname: Murray
authors.forename: M S
authors.initials: MS
authors.lastname: Lee
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001842:Bone and Bones; D004396:Coloring Agents; D005399:Fishes; D005547:Foreign Bodies / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006801:Humans; D010614:Pharynx; D014048:Tolonium Chloride
chemical_list: D004396:Coloring Agents; D014048:Tolonium Chloride